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

For me it worked by doing the following :

1. Set the theme .NoActionBar
2. Wrap the Toolbar in android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
3. Make android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout as the parent layout.

Essentially it is the third step that draws the status bar in the colorPrimaryDark otherwise it is not drawn if you using NoActionBar theme. 2nd step will give your toolbar that overlay.