How to change the status bar color in Android?

Question

First of all it\'s not a duplicate as in How to change the background color of android status bar

How do I change the status bar color which should be same as in nav

Answer 1

This is what worked for me in KitKat and with good results.

public static void setTaskBarColored(Activity context) {
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT)
        {
            Window w = context.getWindow();
            w.setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS);
            //status bar height
            int statusBarHeight = Utilities.getStatusBarHeight(context);

            View view = new View(context);
            view.setLayoutParams(new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
            view.getLayoutParams().height = statusBarHeight;
            ((ViewGroup) w.getDecorView()).addView(view);
            view.setBackgroundColor(context.getResources().getColor(R.color.colorPrimaryTaskBar));
        }
    }