Transparent status bar not working with windowTranslucentNavigation=“false”

Question

I am developing an Activity where I need to make the navigation bar opaque, and the status bar transparent on devices running 5.0+ (API 21+). The styles I am us

Answer 1

As far as I know there's no proper way to set the color of the status bar on APIs lower than 19.

For API 19+ you can use a similar attribute to windowTranslucentNavigation only for the status bar:

true

Notes:

• The reason you were getting a white status bar is because of

  @color/transparent 
  

• There are some hacks that work on specific manufacturer devices, but I wouldn't use them myself.