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

Applying

    @color/color_primary_dark
true

in Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar didn't worked for me. What did the trick is , giving colorPrimaryDark as usual along with android:colorPrimary in styles.xml

@color/color_primary
@color/color_primary
@color/color_primary_dark

and in setting

if (Build.VERSION.SdkInt >= BuildVersionCodes.Lollipop)
                {
                    Window window = this.Window;
                    Window.AddFlags(WindowManagerFlags.DrawsSystemBarBackgrounds);
                }

didn't had to set statusbar color in code .