How to change status bar color in Flutter?

Question

I am trying to change the status bar color to white. I found this pub on flutter. I tried to use the example code on my dart files.

Answer 1

Update Flutter 2.0 (Recommended):

On latest Flutter version, you should use:

AppBar(
  systemOverlayStyle: SystemUiOverlayStyle(
    // Status bar color
    statusBarColor: Colors.red, 

    // Status bar brightness (optional)
    statusBarIconBrightness: Brightness.dark, // For Android (dark icons)
    statusBarBrightness: Brightness.light, // For iOS (dark icons)
  ),
)

---

Only Android (more flexibility):

import 'package:flutter/services.dart';

void main() {
  SystemChrome.setSystemUIOverlayStyle(SystemUiOverlayStyle(
    systemNavigationBarColor: Colors.blue, // navigation bar color
    statusBarColor: Colors.pink, // status bar color
  ));
}

---

Both iOS and Android:

appBar: AppBar(
  backgroundColor: Colors.red, // Status bar color
)

A bit hacky but works on both iOS and Android:

Container(
  color: Colors.red, // Status bar color
  child: SafeArea(
    left: false,
    right: false,
    bottom: false,
    child: Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        backgroundColor: Colors.blue, // App bar color
      ),
    ),
  ),
) 

Answer 2

Works totally fine in my app

import 'package:flutter_statusbarcolor/flutter_statusbarcolor.dart';

void main() => runApp(new MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    FlutterStatusbarcolor.setStatusBarColor(Colors.white);
    return MaterialApp(
      title: app_title,
      theme: ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
      ),
      home: HomePage(title: home_title),
    );
  }
}

(this package)

UPD: Recommended solution (Flutter 2.0 and above)

SystemChrome.setSystemUIOverlayStyle(SystemUiOverlayStyle(
  statusBarColor: Colors.white
));

Answer 3

For those who uses AppBar

If you use AppBar then updating status bar color is as simple as this:

Scaffold(
  appBar: AppBar(
    // Use [Brightness.light] for black status bar 
    // or [Brightness.dark] for white status bar
    // https://stackoverflow.com/a/58132007/1321917
    brightness: Brightness.light 
  ),
  body: ...
)

To apply for all app bars:

return MaterialApp(
  theme: Theme.of(context).copyWith(
    appBarTheme: Theme.of(context)
        .appBarTheme
        .copyWith(brightness: Brightness.light),
  ...
  ),

For those who don't use AppBar

Wrap your content with AnnotatedRegion and set value to SystemUiOverlayStyle.light or SystemUiOverlayStyle.dark:

return AnnotatedRegion<SystemUiOverlayStyle>(
  // Use [SystemUiOverlayStyle.light] for white status bar 
  // or [SystemUiOverlayStyle.dark] for black status bar
  // https://stackoverflow.com/a/58132007/1321917
  value: SystemUiOverlayStyle.light,
  child: Scaffold(...),
);