android - Change status bar text color when primaryDark is white

Question

I am trying to reproduce the behaviour of Google Calendar application:

but I have not found a way to change the status text color. If i set the colorPrimaryDark as white I cannot see the icons neither text of status bar due their color is white as well.

Is there any way to change the status bar text color?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what API level your trying to target, but if you can use API 23 specific stuff, you can add the following to your AppTheme styles.xml:

<item name="android:statusBarColor">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="android:windowLightStatusBar">true</item>

when android:windowLightStatusBar is set to true, status bar text color will be able to be seen when the status bar color is white, and vice-versa when android:windowLightStatusBar is set to false, status bar text color will be designed to be seen when the status bar color is dark.

Example:

<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
    <!-- Status bar stuff. -->
    <item name="android:statusBarColor">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="android:windowLightStatusBar">true</item> 
</style>