Android lollipop change navigation bar color

Question

In my app I need to change the bottom navigation bar color  I watched many post but cant find with the solution  I am using appCompat library     v21 styles xml   lt style name  AppTheme  parent  Theme AppCompat Light  gt          lt item name  android windowBackground  gt  drawable bgpreview lt  item gt          lt item name  android colorPrimary  gt  color MyColor lt  item gt          lt item name  android colorPrimaryDark  gt  color MyColor lt  item gt          lt item name  android windowContentOverlay  gt  null lt  item gt          lt item name  android textColorPrimary  gt  color MyColor lt  item gt          lt item name  colorAccent  gt  color MyColor lt  item gt          lt  -- darker variant for the status bar and contextual app bars -- gt          lt item name  android windowContentTransitions  gt true lt  item gt          lt item name  android windowAllowEnterTransitionOverlap  gt true lt  item gt          lt item name  android windowAllowReturnTransitionOverlap  gt true lt  item gt          lt item name  android windowSharedElementEnterTransition  gt  android transition move lt  item gt          lt item name  android windowSharedElementExitTransition  gt  android transition move lt  item gt           lt item name  windowActionBar  gt false lt  item gt          lt item name  android textAllCaps  gt false lt  item gt    lt  style gt

User · Answer

Here are some ways to change Navigation Bar color.

By the XML

1- values-v21/style.xml

<item name="android:navigationBarColor">@color/navigationbar_color</item>

Or if you want to do it only using the values/ folder then-

2- values/style.xml

<resources xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">

<item name="android:navigationBarColor" tools:targetApi="21">@color/navigationbar_color</item>

You can also change navigation bar color By Programming.

 if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 21)
    getWindow().setNavigationBarColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.navigationbar_color));

By Using Compat Library-

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 21) {
    getWindow().setNavigationBarColor(ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.primary));
}

please find the link for more details- http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/Window.html#setNavigationBarColor(int)

User · Answer

Here is how to do it programatically      if  android os Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   Build VERSION CODES LOLLIPOP                       getWindow   setNavigationBarColor getResources   getColor R color your awesome color        Using Compat library   if  android os Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   Build VERSION CODES LOLLIPOP        getWindow   setNavigationBarColor ContextCompat getColor this  R color primary        Here is how to do it with xml in the values-v21 style xml folder    lt item name  android navigationBarColor  gt  color your color lt  item gt

User · Answer

Create Black Color    lt color name  blackColorPrimary  gt  000001 lt  color gt     not  000000  Write in Style    lt item name  android navigationBarColor  tools targetApi  lollipop  gt  color blackColorPrimary lt  item gt    Problem is that android higher version make trasparent for  000000

User · Answer

It can be done inside styles xml using   lt item name  android navigationBarColor  gt  color theme color lt  item gt    or   window setNavigationBarColor  ColorInt int color    http   developer android com reference android view Window html setNavigationBarColor int   Note that the method was introduced in Android Lollipop and won t work on API version  lt  21   The second method  works on KitKat  is to set windowTranslucentNavigation to true in the manifest and place a colored view beneath the navigation bar

User · Answer

You can add the following line in the values-v21 style xml folder    lt item name  android navigationBarColor  gt  color theme color lt  item gt

User · Answer

For people using Kotlin you can put this in your MainActivity kt  window navigationBarColor   ContextCompat getColor this MainActivity  R color yourColor   With window being  val window  Window   this MainActivity window  Or you can put this in your themes xml or styles xml  requires API level 21    lt item name  android navigationBarColor  gt  color yourColor lt  item gt

User · Answer

You can change it directly in styles xml file  app src main res values styles xml  This work on older versions  I was changing it in KitKat and come here

User · Answer

You can also modify your theme using theme Editor by clicking    Tools -  Android -  Theme Editor  Then  you don t even need to put some extra content in your  xml or  class files

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