Status Bar Color not showing - 5.0 Lollipop Android Studio: (AppCompat-v7:r21)

Question

I\'m using the AppCompat-v7:21.0.0 support library for Android 5.0 Lollipop in Android Studio. My problem is that the Status Bar Color that can be changed by se

Answer 1

Please read this: For this to take effect, the window must be drawing the system bar backgrounds with

android.view.WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS

but

android.view.WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS

must not be set (Source)

In case of you don't know how to add that flag:

getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS);