Xamarin.Forms - Change StatusBar Color

Question

I search but I can\'t find if it\'s possible to change the StatusBar color for each platform, from my portable code? (for Android, iOS & WinPhone 8.1)

Answer 1

On the latest versions of Xamarin you no longer need sketchy plugins and can instead do the following on Android:

var androidColor = color.ToAndroid();               
Xamarin.Essentials.Platform.CurrentActivity.Window.SetStatusBarColor(androidColor);

So a complete dependency example in Android:

using System;
using Android.OS;
using WikiSpiv.Droid.Extras;
using WikiSpiv.Extras;
using Xamarin.Forms;
using Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android;

[assembly: Dependency(typeof(Statusbar))]
namespace WikiSpiv.Droid.Extras
{
    public class Statusbar : IStatusBarPlatformSpecific
    {
        public Statusbar()
        {
        }

        public void SetStatusBarColor(Color color)
        {
            if (Build.VERSION.SdkInt >= BuildVersionCodes.Lollipop)
            {
                var androidColor = color.ToAndroid();
                Xamarin.Essentials.Platform.CurrentActivity.Window.SetStatusBarColor(androidColor);
            }
        }
    }

}

In Forms:

using System;
using Xamarin.Forms;

namespace WikiSpiv.Extras
{
    public interface IStatusBarPlatformSpecific
    {
        public void SetStatusBarColor(Color color);
    }
}

And it can be called like this:

var statusbar = DependencyService.Get();
statusbar.SetStatusBarColor(Color.Green);