Works for Android KitKat and above (For those who want to transparent the status bar and don't manipulate the NavigationBar, because all of these answers will transparent the NavigationBar too!)
The easiest way to achieve it:
Put these 3 lines of code in the styles.xml (v19) -> if you don't know how to have this (v19), just write them in your default styles.xml and then use alt+enter to automatically create it:
<item name="android:windowFullscreen">false</item>
<item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
<item name="android:fitsSystemWindows">false</item>
And now, go to your MainActivity Class and put this Method out of onCreate in the class:
public static void setWindowFlag(Activity activity, final int bits, boolean on) {
Window win = activity.getWindow();
WindowManager.LayoutParams winParams = win.getAttributes();
if (on) {
winParams.flags |= bits;
} else {
winParams.flags &= ~bits;
}
win.setAttributes(winParams);
}
Then put this code in the onCreate method of the Activity:
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 19 && Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 21) {
setWindowFlag(this, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS, true);
}
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 19) {
getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN);
}
//make fully Android Transparent Status bar
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 21) {
setWindowFlag(this, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS, false);
getWindow().setStatusBarColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
}
That's it!