Change status bar color with AppCompat ActionBarActivity

Question

In one of my Activities  I changed the Toolbar color using Palette   But on 5 0 devices using ActionBarActivity the status bar color is the color of my colorPrimaryDark in my activity theme so I have 2 very different colors and it does not look good   I realize that in 5 0 you can use Window setStatusBarColor   but ActionBarActivity does not have this   so my question is in 5 0 how can I change the status bar color with ActionBarActivity

User · Answer

There are various ways of changing the status bar color.

1) Using the styles.xml. You can use the android:statusBarColor attribute to do this the easy but static way.

Note: You can also use this attribute with the Material theme.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="AppTheme.Base">
        <item name="android:statusBarColor">@android:color/transparent</item>
    </style>
</resources>

2) You can get it done dynamically using the setStatusBarColor(int) method in the Window class. But remember that this method is only available for API 21 or higher. So be sure to check that, or your app will surely crash in lower devices.

Here is a working example of this method.

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 21) {
            Window window = getWindow();
            window.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS);
            window.clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS);
            window.setStatusBarColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.primaryDark));
}

where primaryDark is the 700 tint of the primary color I am using in my app. You can define this color in the colors.xml file.

Do give it a try and let me know if you have any questions. Hope it helps.

User · Answer

I don t think the status bar color has been implemented in AppCompat yet  These are the attributes which are available        lt  --               -- gt       lt  -- Color palette -- gt       lt  --               -- gt        lt  -- The primary branding color for the app  By default  this is the color applied to the          action bar background  -- gt       lt attr name  colorPrimary  format  color    gt        lt  -- Dark variant of the primary branding color  By default  this is the color applied to          the status bar  via statusBarColor  and navigation bar  via navigationBarColor   -- gt       lt attr name  colorPrimaryDark  format  color    gt        lt  -- Bright complement to the primary branding color  By default  this is the color applied          to framework controls  via colorControlActivated   -- gt       lt attr name  colorAccent  format  color    gt        lt  -- The color applied to framework controls in their normal state  -- gt       lt attr name  colorControlNormal  format  color    gt        lt  -- The color applied to framework controls in their activated  ex  checked  state  -- gt       lt attr name  colorControlActivated  format  color    gt        lt  -- The color applied to framework control highlights  ex  ripples  list selectors   -- gt       lt attr name  colorControlHighlight  format  color    gt        lt  -- The color applied to framework buttons in their normal state  -- gt       lt attr name  colorButtonNormal  format  color    gt        lt  -- The color applied to framework switch thumbs in their normal state  -- gt       lt attr name  colorSwitchThumbNormal  format  color    gt     From  sdk extras android support v7 appcompat res values attrs xml

User · Answer

I m not sure I understand the problem   I you want to change the status bar color programmatically  and provided the device has Android 5 0  then you can use Window setStatusBarColor    It shouldn t make a difference whether the activity is derived from Activity or ActionBarActivity   Just try doing   if  Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   Build VERSION CODES LOLLIPOP        Window window   getWindow        window addFlags WindowManager LayoutParams FLAG DRAWS SYSTEM BAR BACKGROUNDS       window setStatusBarColor Color BLUE       Just tested this with ActionBarActivity and it works alright     Note  Setting the FLAG DRAWS SYSTEM BAR BACKGROUNDS flag programmatically is not necessary if your values-v21 styles file has it set already  via        lt item name  android windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds  gt true lt  item gt

User · Answer

Applying          lt item name  android statusBarColor  gt  color color primary dark lt  item gt   lt item name  android windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds  gt true lt  item gt    in Theme AppCompat Light DarkActionBar didn t worked for me  What did the trick is   giving colorPrimaryDark as usual along with  android colorPrimary in styles xml    lt item name  android colorAccent  gt  color color primary lt  item gt   lt item name  android colorPrimary  gt  color color primary lt  item gt   lt item name  android colorPrimaryDark  gt  color color primary dark lt  item gt    and in setting    if  Build VERSION SdkInt  gt   BuildVersionCodes Lollipop                                        Window window   this Window                      Window AddFlags WindowManagerFlags DrawsSystemBarBackgrounds                       didn t had to set statusbar color in code

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Thanks for above answers  with the help of those  after certain R amp D for xamarin android MVVMCross application  below worked  Flag specified for activity in method OnCreate  protected override void OnCreate Bundle bundle                base OnCreate bundle           this Window AddFlags WindowManagerFlags DrawsSystemBarBackgrounds           For  each MvxActivity  Theme is mentioned as below    Activity      LaunchMode   LaunchMode SingleTop      ScreenOrientation   ScreenOrientation Portrait      Theme     style Theme Splash       Name    MyView           My SplashStyle xml looks like as below   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt resources gt        lt style name  Theme Splash  parent  Theme AppCompat Light NoActionBar  gt             lt item name  android statusBarColor  gt  color app red lt  item gt             lt item name  android colorPrimaryDark  gt  color app red lt  item gt       lt  style gt    lt  resources gt    And I have V7 appcompact referred

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Kotlin version  I created this extension that also checks if the desired color has enough contrast to hide the System UI  like Battery Status Icon  Clock  etc  so we set the System UI white or black according to this  fun Activity coloredStatusBarMode  ColorInt color  Int   Color WHITE  lightSystemUI  Boolean    null        var flags  Int   window decorView systemUiVisibility    get current flags     var systemLightUIFlag   View SYSTEM UI FLAG LIGHT STATUS BAR     var setSystemUILight   lightSystemUI      if  setSystemUILight    null               Automatically check if the desired status bar is dark or light         setSystemUILight   ColorUtils calculateLuminance color   lt  0 5            flags   if  setSystemUILight               Set System UI Light  Battery Status Icon  Clock  etc          removeFlag flags  systemLightUIFlag        else              Set System UI Dark  Battery Status Icon  Clock  etc          addFlag flags  systemLightUIFlag             window decorView systemUiVisibility   flags     window statusBarColor   color    private fun containsFlag flags  Int  flagToCheck  Int     flags and flagToCheck     0  private fun addFlag flags  Int  flagToAdd  Int   Int       return if   containsFlag flags  flagToAdd             flags or flagToAdd       else           flags          private fun removeFlag flags  Int  flagToRemove  Int   Int       return if  containsFlag flags  flagToRemove             flags and flagToRemove inv         else           flags

User · Answer

Try this  I used this and it works very good with v21    lt  -- Base application theme  -- gt   lt style name  AppTheme  parent  Theme AppCompat Light  gt       lt item name  colorPrimaryDark  gt  color blue lt  item gt   lt  style gt

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