Windows Phone 8 App - How to change color of clock and top bar icons

Question

I am creating some WP8 app and I want to change foreground color of the most top bar where the clock and other icons like WiFi or telephone network range. I want to do something like in linkedin app where clock and others become blue. Like this: Anybody knows how o do it?

Answer 1

You can change it in xaml, BTW it is called System Tray not top bar.

<phone:PhoneApplicationPage
...
xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True"
shell:SystemTray.BackgroundColor="Blue">
...

Hope this helped you