React Native StatusBar: dark-content not working on android

Question

I'm trying to change the color of the title and the icons of the status-bar to be black. so, according to the react-native status-bar documentation, I set the barStyle to dark-content but nothing change.

<StatusBar barStyle="dark-content" backgroundColor={'white'} />

Answer 1

You could try to do the following:

import {StatusBar} from "react-native"

...

StatusBar.setBackgroundColor('white');
StatusBar.setBarStyle('dark-content');

with useEffect or componentDidMount methods.