Support changing status bar color

[pikaboo]

The status bar has two colors
the background color and the text color

I want the background color to be transparent and thus take the color of whatever is behind it. And have the option of changing the foreground color from light to dark or dark to light (which is supported from android M and up)

current result:

desired result

The following in the launch screen helped me fix it:

public class Controller_LaunchScreen
        extends CyborgController {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate() {
        Window window = getActivity().getWindow();

// clear FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS flag:
        window.clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS);

// add FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS flag to the window
        window.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS);
        View rootView = getRootView();
        int flags = rootView.getSystemUiVisibility();
//make the status bar text color dark
        flags |= View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR;
        rootView.setSystemUiVisibility(flags);
// finally change the color
        window.setStatusBarColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

        super.onCreate();
    }
    public Controller_LaunchScreen() {
        super(R.layout.controller_splash_screen);
    }
}

[hedshafran]

If you want to change the status bar background/text color you can use this method:
(If I remember correctly you can call it from anywhere at any time)

@RequiresApi(api = VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
public void setStatusBarColor(Activity activity, int color, boolean darkText) {
	activity.getWindow().addFlags(LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS);
	activity.getWindow().clearFlags(LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS);
	activity.getWindow().addFlags(LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_NAVIGATION);
	activity.getWindow().setStatusBarColor(color);

	if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.M) {
		View view = activity.getWindow().getDecorView();
		int flags = view.getSystemUiVisibility();
		if (darkText) {
			flags |= View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR;
		} else {
			flags &= ~View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR;
		}
		view.setSystemUiVisibility(flags);
	}
}

Examples:

setStatusBarColor(activity, Color.TRANSPARENT, true);
setStatusBarColor(activity, Color.BLUE, false);
setStatusBarColor(activity, Color.parseColor("#e5e5e5"), true);

@TacB0sS We should consider adding this method to the CyborgController and then no need to supply an Activity, but more testing is needed since I didn't use it enough myself...

[pikaboo]

current state of this method causes this:

and this:

[hedshafran]

This is the effect of the FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_NAVIGATION.
Actually this should be an option in the method..
So the method should look like this:

@RequiresApi(api = VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
public void setStatusBarColor(Activity activity, int color, boolean darkText, boolean translucant) {
	activity.getWindow().addFlags(LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS);
	activity.getWindow().clearFlags(LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS);

	if (translucant) {
		activity.getWindow().addFlags(LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_NAVIGATION);
	} else {
		activity.getWindow().clearFlags(LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_NAVIGATION);
	}
	
        activity.getWindow().setStatusBarColor(color);

	if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.M) {
		View view = activity.getWindow().getDecorView();
		int flags = view.getSystemUiVisibility();

		if (darkText) {
			flags |= View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR;
		} else {
			flags &= ~View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR;
		}

		view.setSystemUiVisibility(flags);
	}
}

And you need to pass false as the 4'th parameter.

[pikaboo]

the ugly solution is to usee the previous version of the method and just put padding above and below my layout so that it doesnt overlap.

But i'm sure there has to be another way to go about it

[TacB0sS]

@pikaboo How did you eventually solve this properly.. with padding?

@hedshafran Solution was not good enough?