Theming Activity- Changing the color of StatusBar

Question

My application have activities and am not using support library. But I would like to change the colorPrimaryDark of a class which extends Activity(not AppCompat).

I have used below code in my style.xml and changed actionBar color

<style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
    <item name="android:background">@color/colorPrimary</item>
</style>

Now, my activity's actionBar look like below

But I want it to look something like this,

Someone's help is appreciated. Thanks.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 12 '18 at 06:02

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Top bar is known as status bar so adding the below code to your theme should work.

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

answered Jan 12 '18 at 06:02

Vivek Mishra

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@ Vivek Mishra, what is the parent for using statusBarColor? I tried what you have suggested but no luck end up with same as before. – Shree Jan 12 '18 at 06:08
In Manifest, I used – Shree Jan 12 '18 at 06:29
your parent for status bar should be MyTheme – Vivek Mishra Jan 12 '18 at 06:59
Used as below, but still not working – Shree Jan 12 '18 at 07:01
Can someone help? – Shree Jan 12 '18 at 09:12
try changing your my action bar parent. – Vivek Mishra Jan 12 '18 at 09:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 16 '18 at 05:56

Here is the solution after trying many things. Use any of Material Theme as parent with android:colorPrimaryDark as below

<style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Material.Light.DarkActionBar">
     <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
     <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
     <item name="android:background">@color/colorPrimary</item>
</style>

Theming Activity- Changing the color of StatusBar

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