Transparent status bar not working with windowTranslucentNavigation=”false”
android:windowTranslucentNavigation does one thing that android:statusBarColor doesn’t do, which is requesting the SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE and SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN flags. These are the ones that you need to request in order to draw behind the status bar. Request them in the onCreate of your Activity: getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN); Alternatively you can also simply set your apps theme background and … Read more