How can I make the status bar white with black icons?

Question

I want to change the colour of the status bar for my app so that it's white with black icons (instead of the default black with white icons). Is there any way of doing this?

Answer 1

With Android M (api level 23) you can achieve this from theme with android:windowLightStatusBar attribute.

Edit :

Just as Pdroid mentioned, this can also be achieved programatically:

getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR);  

Answer 2

It is possible to make the white status bar with grey icons e.g. this way for SDK >= 23 (see docs):

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">     <item name="android:windowLightStatusBar">true</item> </style> 

in your styles.xml and set the colorPrimary to white or programmatically:

getWindow().setStatusBarColor(Color.WHITE);