Status bar color

[danieleorlando]

Hi, I just added support to status bar color on my local project.
Only 3 lines of code on Android, but it needs an update on JSON file too.

How can I help you to release officially?

[gliechtenstein]

Are you trying to set a different color for the status bar compared to the toolbar? or are they the same color?

The reason I ask is because maybe it's a better idea to just make the statusbar color match the toolbar color, assuming that that's what most people would want.

[danieleorlando]

It's a different color. Cause in Material Design guidelines, status bar has a darker color from toolbar

I added this on JasonViewActivity.java in setup_header function
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) { String statusColor = header.getJSONObject("style").getString("status"); getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS); getWindow().setStatusBarColor(JasonHelper.parse_color(statusColor)); }

As you can see, I added "status" also on JSON file structure

[realitix]

Hello @gliechtenstein.
I think it's a good idea to let user customize status bar color, it's just a single string.
Do we do it ?

[gliechtenstein]

@realitix iOS provides only two options (.default and .lightcontent) https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uistatusbarstyle?language=objc

Basically, there are two modes on iOS:

1. UIStatusBarStyleLightContent: white text with transparent background
2. UIStatusBarStyleDefault: black text with transparent background

For now we are trying to keep the JSON markup as cross-platform as possible, so one idea I have is do something similar for Android instead of manual color setting. Any better ideas?

[maks]

Tricky to keep it x-platform. Perhaps allow any colour on android and on iOS ignore if not 000 or fff ?

[danieleorlando]

If you want to keep the JSON markup as cross-platform as possible, the only way is to use material color 700 for the status bar only when the toolbar color is a 500 color

https://material.io/guidelines/style/color.html

[maks]

@danieleorlando sorry I don't follow what you mean about the colours?

[danieleorlando]

@maks

Material design specs:

"A primary color is the color displayed most frequently across your app’s screens and components. It can also be used to accent elements, if you don’t have a secondary color.

To create contrast between elements, you can use lighter or darker tones of your primary color. The contrast between lighter and darker tones helps show division between surfaces, such as between the status bar and a toolbar."

So, primary color (toolbar) is the one on JSON.

If this color is in Material Design Palette (#500), we pick the darker version (#700) and set to status bar.