Android Translucent status bar differs in different devices

Question

Translucent Status bar differs in different devices.

For example, in Note 4, the translucent part looks like shadow.

In Note 3 , the translucent part is not showing. In most of the other devices it's there!

I have used , windowTranslucentStatus = true in my app's theme. Any idea to solve this?

Find the Note 4 Screen shot here

Answer 1

Translucent status bar looks like shadow on all Android KitKat devices. Samsung Lollipop devices don't show a status bar at all. Other Lollipop devices show a translucent black rectangle.

I was struggling with that and seems like there's no good solution. You can:

• Assume that it just works and don't care about differences.
• Use translucent status only on Lollipop and M (KitKat stays with black opaque status bar).
• Use opaque status bar with color set to colorPrimaryDark (this solution is pretty good, but doesn't work if you wish to have a drawer or a header with an image drawn over the status bar.
• Check if the device you're using is a 'samsung' or anything else and pick status bar's settings accordingly.