Change status bar color with AppCompat ActionBarActivity

Question

In one of my Activities, I changed the Toolbar color using Palette. But on 5.0 devices using ActionBarActivity the status bar color i

Answer 1

Thanks for above answers, with the help of those, after certain R&D for xamarin.android MVVMCross application, below worked

Flag specified for activity in method OnCreate

protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle)
    {
        base.OnCreate(bundle);
        this.Window.AddFlags(WindowManagerFlags.DrawsSystemBarBackgrounds);
    }

For each MvxActivity, Theme is mentioned as below

 [Activity(
    LaunchMode = LaunchMode.SingleTop,
    ScreenOrientation = ScreenOrientation.Portrait,
    Theme = "@style/Theme.Splash",
    Name = "MyView"
    )]

My SplashStyle.xml looks like as below

And I have V7 appcompact referred.