Android Status Bar transparent with Navigation Drawer - Appbar elevation

Question

I am working on an app with Material Design Guidelines. I have a boilerplate app created by Android Studio. For some reason the status bar has a little gradient at the botto

Answer 1

You can do this by specifying the color of the status bar within the Java code. Within the OnCreate method of your activity, add a line of code:

getWindow().setStatusBarColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.black));

whereas the R.color.black might be changed to any value that you specified in your color.xml file.

I have posted an article specifically talking about the strange status bar behavior. You can check that out here.

Glad to know I'm not the only one bother by this.