Status bar turns white and does not show content behind it

Question

I am trying out AppCompat on Marshmallow. And I want to have a transparent status bar however it turns white. I\'ve tried a couple solutions but they didn\'t work for me (Tr

Answer 1

(A little late to the party but it might help someone)

I had the exact same problem. Somehow, some activities were normal while new ones I created were showing white status bar instead of colorPrimaryDark value.

After trying several tips, I noticed that the normal-working activities where all using CoordinatorLayout as the root of the layout, while for the others I had replaced it by regular layouts because I didn't need the features (animation, etc) provided by CoordinatorLayout.

So the solution is to make CoordinatorLayout the root layout, and then inside of it add your former layout root. Here is an example:

PLEASE NOTE that without android:fitsSystemWindows="true" this solution doesn't work for me.

Tested on Lollipop and Marshmallow