Android statusbar icons color

Question

I was wondering if it's possible to change the statusbar icons colour ( not the statusbar colour, colorPrimaryDark ) Let's say I want this statusbar with:
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@android:color/white</item>

and the icons in black, is it possible?

Thanks.

EDIT:

New in the M developer preview: windowLightStatusBar. Flipping this on in your theme tells the system to use a dark foreground, useful for lighter colored status bars. Note the M preview seems to have a bug where notification icons remain white, while system status icons correctly change to semitransparent black.

from: Roman Nurik Google+ post

Answer 1

Yes it's possible to change it to gray (no custom colors) but this only works from API 23 and above you only need to add this in your values-v23/styles.xml

<item name="android:windowLightStatusBar">true</item>

Answer 2

@eOnOe has answered how we can change status bar tint through xml. But we can also change it dynamically in code:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
    View decor = getWindow().getDecorView();
    if (shouldChangeStatusBarTintToDark) {
        decor.setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR);
    } else {
        // We want to change tint color to white again.
        // You can also record the flags in advance so that you can turn UI back completely if
        // you have set other flags before, such as translucent or full screen.
        decor.setSystemUiVisibility(0);
    }
}

Answer 3

if you have API level smaller than 23 than you must use it this way. it worked for me declare this under v21/style .

<item name="colorPrimaryDark" tools:targetApi="23">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="android:windowLightStatusBar" tools:targetApi="23">true</item>

Answer 4

Not since Lollipop. Starting with Android 5.0, the guidelines say:

Notification icons must be entirely white.

Even if they're not, the system will only consider the alpha channel of your icon, rendering them white

Workaround

The only way to have a coloured icon on Lollipop is to lower your targetSdkVersion to values <21 , but I think you would do better to follow the guidelines and use white icons only.

If you still however decide you want colored icons, you could use the DrawableCompat.setTint method from the new v4 support library.

Answer 5

Setting windowLightStatusBar to true not works with Mi phones, some Meizu phones, Blackview phones, WileyFox etc. I've found such hack for Mi and Meizu devices. This is not a comprehensive solution of this perfomance problem, but maybe it would be useful to somebody.

And I think, it would be better to tell your customer that coloring status bar (for example) white - is not a good idea. instead of using different hacks it would be better to define appropriate colorPrimaryDark according to the guidelines

Answer 6

You can do it programmatically with retaining all other system UI visibility flags .

public static void changeStatusBarContrastStyle(Window window, Boolean lightIcons) {
     View decorView = window.getDecorView();
     if (lightIcons) {
         // Draw light icons on a dark background color
         decorView.setSystemUiVisibility(decorView.getSystemUiVisibility() & ~View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR);
     } else {
         // Draw dark icons on a light background color
         decorView.setSystemUiVisibility(decorView.getSystemUiVisibility() | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR);
     }
 }

Answer 7

SystemUiVisibility flags are deprecated. Use WindowInsetsController instead

the code below sets the color of icons to black (for the light statusbar)

//icon color -> black  
activity.getWindow().getDecorView().getWindowInsetsController().setSystemBarsAppearance(APPEARANCE_LIGHT_STATUS_BARS, APPEARANCE_LIGHT_STATUS_BARS);

and the code below clears it(ie turns icon color to white for dark statusbar):

//icon color -> white
activity.getWindow().getDecorView().getWindowInsetsController().setSystemBarsAppearance(0, APPEARANCE_LIGHT_STATUS_BARS);

link to docs : https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/WindowInsetsController#setSystemBarsAppearance(int,%20int)

Answer 8

This is for all those who want to change their application's Notification small icon color can use this setColor method of NotificationCompat.Builder

Example:

val builder = NotificationCompat.Builder(this, "whatever_channel_id")
        **.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_notification) //set icon for notification**
        .setColor(ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.pink))
        .setContentTitle("Notification Title")
        .setContentText("Notification Message!")

Answer 9

I used two line of code for different status bar color

1st: If status bar color is white then use this line of code to visible the status bar icon:

  pingAct.getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR);
  
      

2nd: If you use dark color then use this line of code to make visible the status bar icon:

 pingAct.getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_VISIBLE);

               

Answer 10

in kotlin you can use following lines

    val window = this.window
    window.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS)
    window.statusBarColor = ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.white)
    WindowCompat.getInsetsController(window, window.decorView).apply {
        isAppearanceLightStatusBars = true
    }

Answer 11

Yes you can change it. but in api 22 and above, using NotificationCompat.Builder and setColorized(true) :

NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context, context.getPackageName())
                .setContentTitle(title)
                .setContentText(message)
                .setSmallIcon(icon, level)
                .setLargeIcon(largeIcon)
                .setContentIntent(intent)
                .setColorized(true)
                .setDefaults(0)
                .setCategory(Notification.CATEGORY_SERVICE)
                .setVisibility(NotificationCompat.VISIBILITY_PUBLIC)
                .setPriority(NotificationCompat.PRIORITY_HIGH);