Status bar turns white and does not show content behind it
I found the answer in this link:Status Bar Color not changing with Relative Layout as root element
So it turns out we need remove the
<item name="android:statusBarColor">@android:color/transparent</item>
in styles.xml(v21). And it works just fine for me.
(A little late to the party but it might help someone)
I had the exact same problem. Somehow, some activities were normal while new ones I created were showing white status bar instead of colorPrimaryDark
value.
After trying several tips, I noticed that the normal-working activities where all using CoordinatorLayout
as the root of the layout, while for the others I had replaced it by regular layouts because I didn't need the features (animation, etc) provided by CoordinatorLayout
.
So the solution is to make CoordinatorLayout
the root layout, and then inside of it add your former layout root. Here is an example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="@+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" />
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
<!-- your activity content here-->
</LinearLayout>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
PLEASE NOTE that without android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
this solution doesn't work for me.
Tested on Lollipop and Marshmallow