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

In my case values-v21/styles.xml contained the following line which overrode the status bar color defined in values/style.xml with colorPrimaryDark:

@android:color/transparent

Removing this worked for me.