Android studio kotlin java change status bar color

Android studio kotlin/java change status bar background color

Hello Today we learn how to change status bar background color in android studio.

What is status bar ?

In android phones , status bar contains notifications and system icons. As you can see in above image that area is status bar.

Here we will change background color through xml so it will be work with both java and kotlin. You can change status bar color by many ways but here we are using very simple way to do this. So please follow below steps:-


Please open your project folder and navigate to app/src/main/res/values/styles.xml or just search styles.xml file and then add below line in it

<item name="android:statusBarColor">#333</item>

Here we are using dark color code #333 but you can use any color code according to you and it will be good if you use color according to your app theme.

So after adding this code your code will be look like this

<resources>
    <!-- Base application theme. -->    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
        <item name="android:statusBarColor">#333</item>
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
    </style>
</resources>

After the above process, please click on build and check it will work. Thanks for reading :)