How to change the status bar color in android

Question

First of all it's not a duplicate as in How to change the background color of android status bar

How do I change the status bar color which should be same as in navigation bar.

I want the status bar color to be same as the navigation bar color

Answer 1

One more solution:

final View decorView = w.getDecorView();
View view = new View(BaseControllerActivity.this);
final int statusBarHeight = UiUtil.getStatusBarHeight(ContextHolder.get());
view.setLayoutParams(new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, statusBarHeight));
view.setBackgroundColor(colorValue);
((ViewGroup)decorView).addView(view);

Answer 2

If you want to work on Android 4.4 and above, try this. I refer to Harpreet's answer and this link. Android and the transparent status bar

First, call setStatusBarColored method in Activity's onCreate method(I put it in a util class). I use a image here, you can change it to use a color.

public static void setStatusBarColored(Activity context) {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT)
    {
        Window w = context.getWindow();
        w.setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS);
        int statusBarHeight = getStatusBarHeight(context);

        View view = new View(context);
        view.setLayoutParams(new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
        view.getLayoutParams().height = statusBarHeight;
        ((ViewGroup) w.getDecorView()).addView(view);
        view.setBackground(context.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.navibg));
    }
}

public static int getStatusBarHeight(Activity context) {
    int result = 0;
    int resourceId = context.getResources().getIdentifier("status_bar_height", "dimen", "android");
    if (resourceId > 0) {
        result = context.getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(resourceId);
    }
    return result;
}

Before:

After:

The color of the status bar has been changed, but the navi bar is cut off, so we need to set the margin or offset of the navi bar in the onCreate method.

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
        LinearLayout.LayoutParams layoutParams = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
                ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, (int)(this.getResources().getDimension(R.dimen.navibar_height)));
        layoutParams.setMargins(0, Utils.getStatusBarHeight(this), 0, 0);

        this.findViewById(R.id.linear_navi).setLayoutParams(layoutParams);
    }

Then the status bar will look like this.

Answer 3

This is what worked for me in KitKat and with good results.

public static void setTaskBarColored(Activity context) {
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT)
        {
            Window w = context.getWindow();
            w.setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS);
            //status bar height
            int statusBarHeight = Utilities.getStatusBarHeight(context);

            View view = new View(context);
            view.setLayoutParams(new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
            view.getLayoutParams().height = statusBarHeight;
            ((ViewGroup) w.getDecorView()).addView(view);
            view.setBackgroundColor(context.getResources().getColor(R.color.colorPrimaryTaskBar));
        }
    }

Answer 4

As @Niels said you have to place in values-v21/styles.xml:

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

But add tools:targetApi="lollipop" if you want single styles.xml, like:

<item name="android:statusBarColor" tools:targetApi="lollipop">@color/black</item>

Answer 5

Android 5.0 Lollipop introduced Material Design theme which automatically colors the status bar based on the colorPrimaryDark value of the theme.

This is supported on device pre-lollipop thanks to the library support-v7-appcompat starting from version 21. Blogpost about support appcompat v21 from Chris Banes

Read more about the Material Theme on the official Android Developers website

Answer 6

You can change the status bar color with this function. works on android L means API 21 and higher and needs a color string such as "#ffffff".

private void changeStatusBarColor(String color){
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 21) {
        Window window = getWindow();
        window.clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS);
        window.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS);
        window.setStatusBarColor(Color.parseColor(color));
    }
}