Android Material Status bar color won t change

Question

I m developing an simple app to test the material design  I m using com android support appcompat-v7 21 0 0 and my activity looks like   public class MyActivity extends ActionBarActivity              The layout is defined as    lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      xmlns tools  http   schemas android com tools      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  match parent      tools context   MyActivity  gt        lt android support v7 widget Toolbar         xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android          android id    id toolbar          android layout width  match parent          android layout height  128dp          android minHeight   attr actionBarSize          android background   attr colorPrimaryDark   gt   lt  LinearLayout gt    Now i defined my theme following material guidelines    lt style name  AppTheme  parent  Theme AppCompat NoActionBar  gt       lt item name  colorPrimary  gt  color colorPrimary500 lt  item gt       lt item name  colorPrimaryDark  gt  color colorPrimaryDark700 lt  item gt   lt  style gt    I d like to change the status bar color in pre Android 5 and set it to colorPrimaryDark but i can t find the way  I tried using   getWindow   setStatusBarColor       but setStatusBar color is available from level 21   Why if i define a colorPrimaryDark in my theme and use appcompact the status bar doesn t change color  Anyone can help

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While colouring the status bar is not supported <5.0, on 4.4 you can use a work around to achieve a darker colour:

Make the status bar translucent

<item name="android:windowTranslucentStatus">true</item>

Then use AppCompat's Toolbar for your appbar, making sure that it fits system windows:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    ...
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"/>

Make sure to set your toolbar as your activity's toolbar:

protected void onCreate(final Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    ...
    toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

The toolbar stretches underneath the status bar, and the semi translucency of the status bar makes it appear to be a darker secondary colour. If that's not the colour you want, this combination allows you to fit a view underneath your status bar sporting the background colour of your choice (though it's still tinted darker by the status bar).

Kind of an edge case workaround due to 4.4 only, but there ya go.

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This solution sets the statusbar color of Lollipop  Kitkat and some pre Lollipop devices  Samsung and Sony   The SystemBarTintManager is managing the Kitkat devices       Override protected void onCreate  Bundle savedInstanceState         super onCreate savedInstanceState       setContentView R layout activity main       hackStatusBarColor this  R color primary dark       SuppressLint  NewApi    SuppressWarnings  deprecation   public static View hackStatusBarColor  final Activity act  final int colorResID         if  Build VERSION SDK INT  lt  Build VERSION CODES LOLLIPOP            try                if  act getWindow      null                     final ViewGroup vg    ViewGroup  act getWindow   getDecorView                    if  vg getParent      null  amp  amp  applyColoredStatusBar act  colorResID                         final View statusBar   new View act                        vg post new Runnable                              Override                         public void run                                  int statusBarHeight    int  Math ceil 25   vg getContext   getResources   getDisplayMetrics   density                               statusBar setLayoutParams new LayoutParams LayoutParams MATCH PARENT  statusBarHeight                                statusBar setBackgroundColor act getResources   getColor colorResID                                statusBar setId 13371337                               vg addView statusBar  0                                                                         return statusBar                                            catch  Exception e                e printStackTrace                        else if  act getWindow      null            act getWindow   addFlags WindowManager LayoutParams FLAG DRAWS SYSTEM BAR BACKGROUNDS           act getWindow   setStatusBarColor act getResources   getColor colorResID              return null     private static boolean applyColoredStatusBar  Activity act  int colorResID         final Window window   act getWindow        final int flag      if  window    null            View decor   window getDecorView            if  decor    null                flag   resolveTransparentStatusBarFlag act                if  flag    0                    decor setSystemUiVisibility flag                   return true                            else if  Build VERSION SDK INT    Build VERSION CODES KITKAT                    act findViewById android R id content  setFitsSystemWindows false                   setTranslucentStatus window  true                   final SystemBarTintManager tintManager   new SystemBarTintManager act                   tintManager setStatusBarTintEnabled true                   tintManager setStatusBarTintColor colorResID                                     return false     public static int resolveTransparentStatusBarFlag  Context ctx         String   libs   ctx getPackageManager   getSystemSharedLibraryNames        String reflect   null       if  libs    null          return 0       final String SAMSUNG    touchwiz       final String SONY    com sonyericsson navigationbar        for  String lib   libs             if  lib equals SAMSUNG                 reflect    SYSTEM UI FLAG TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND                     else if  lib startsWith SONY                 reflect    SYSTEM UI FLAG TRANSPARENT                        if  reflect    null          return 0       try           Field field   View class getField reflect           if  field getType      Integer TYPE                return field getInt null                   catch  Exception e               return 0      TargetApi Build VERSION CODES KITKAT  public static void setTranslucentStatus  Window win  boolean on         WindowManager LayoutParams winParams   win getAttributes        final int bits   WindowManager LayoutParams FLAG TRANSLUCENT STATUS      if  on            winParams flags    bits            else           winParams flags  amp    bits            win setAttributes winParams

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Solution for naughty LOLLIPOP      hello i had rly big problem with having that darker than was my color    so this is solution to avoid that shadow behind status bar from solution with TranslucentStatus     so in all of your java activity you need this       if  Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   Build VERSION CODES LOLLIPOP            getWindow   addFlags WindowManager LayoutParams FLAG DRAWS SYSTEM BAR BACKGROUNDS           getWindow   clearFlags WindowManager LayoutParams FLAG TRANSLUCENT STATUS           and at your styles xml you need to set background color  this color will be your status bar color     lt style name  AppCompat  parent  Theme AppCompat  gt       lt item name  android colorBackground  gt  color YOUR STATUS BAR COLOR lt  item gt   lt  style gt    and at all your layouts you need to add layout which will be your background    lt LinearLayout     android background   color YOUR BACKGROUND COLOR      android orientation  vertical      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  match parent      android gravity  bottom        gt    of course if you would like use  color just name    you need to set that at colors xml    lt color name  YOUR STATUS BAR COLOR  gt  cf031c lt  color gt   lt color name  YOUR BACKGROUND COLOR  gt  383838 lt  color gt    here is whole process how we did done that  Whats the right approach to create or change color of a status bar

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Status bar coloring is not supported in AppCompat v7 21 0 0   From the Android developers blog post     On older platforms  AppCompat emulates the color theming where possible  At the moment this is limited to coloring the action bar and some widgets    This means the AppCompat lib will only color status bars on Lollipop and above

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I know this doesn t answer the question  but with Material Design  API 21   we can change the color of the status bar by adding this line in the theme declaration in styles xml    lt  -- MAIN THEME -- gt   lt style name  AppTheme  parent   android style Theme Material Light  gt       lt item name  android actionBarStyle  gt  style actionBarCustomization lt  item gt       lt item name  android spinnerDropDownItemStyle  gt  style mySpinnerDropDownItemStyle lt  item gt       lt item name  android spinnerItemStyle  gt  style mySpinnerItemStyle lt  item gt       lt item name  android colorButtonNormal  gt  color myDarkBlue lt  item gt       lt item name  android statusBarColor  gt  color black lt  item gt   lt  style gt    Notice the android statusBarColor  where we can define the color  otherwise the default is used

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As others have also mentioned  this can be readily solved by adding the following to the onCreate   of the Activity       if  Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   Build VERSION CODES LOLLIPOP            getWindow   addFlags WindowManager LayoutParams FLAG DRAWS SYSTEM BAR BACKGROUNDS           getWindow   clearFlags WindowManager LayoutParams FLAG TRANSLUCENT STATUS           getWindow   setStatusBarColor ContextCompat getColor this  R color primary dark            However  the important point I want to add here is that in some cases  even the above does not change the status bar color  For example  when using MikePenz library for Navigation Drawer  it implicityly overrides the status bar color  so that you need to manually add the following for it to work    withStatusBarColorRes R color status bar color

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The status bar is a system window owned by the operating system  On pre-5 0 Android devices  applications do not have permission to alter its color  so this is not something that the AppCompat library can support for older platform versions  The best AppCompat can do is provide  support for coloring the ActionBar and other common UI widgets within the application

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Make Theme AppCompat style parent   lt style name  AppTheme  parent  Theme AppCompat  gt        lt item name  android colorPrimary  gt  005555 lt  item gt        lt item name  android colorPrimaryDark  gt  003333 lt  item gt   lt  style gt    And put getSupportActionBar   getThemedContext   in onCreate     protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState           setContentView R layout activity my           getSupportActionBar   getThemedContext

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Switch to AppCompatActivity and add a 25 dp paddingTop on the toolbar and turn on    lt item name  android windowTranslucentStatus  gt true lt  item gt    Then  the will toolbar go up top the top

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if  Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   Build VERSION CODES LOLLIPOP        getWindow   addFlags WindowManager LayoutParams FLAG DRAWS SYSTEM BAR BACKGROUNDS       getWindow   setStatusBarColor getResources   getColor R color actionbar        Put this code in your Activity s onCreate method  This helped me

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