Status Bar Color not changing with Relative Layout as root element

Question

I am just starting to learn android, I am learning to add AppBar. But if I use Relative Layout as the root then Status Bar don\'t use the color \"colorPrimaryDark\" defined

Answer 1

In v21/styles.xml you probably have this line of code:

  <item name="android:statusBarColor">@android:color/transparent</item>

And as you are running on API 23, the declared styles are overrided from the ones in v21/styles.xml.

As a solution:

Just remove that line and it will work fine

Answer 2

just add this

getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR);

Answer 3

The styling of the statusbar is done by the

android:fitsSystemWindows

tag. This is currently not supported for RelativeLayout. Either you try another layout like FrameLayout which could work but for know i would suggest to stick to the CoordinatorLayout.

Maybe you get some more details here: https://medium.com/google-developers/why-would-i-want-to-fitssystemwindows-4e26d9ce1eec