(Note: This is somewhat related to When using ActionMode, the status bar turns black on Lollipop so there might be some additional information there that I accidentally omitted from this question)
I have the following theme defined:
<style name="Material" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">@color/app_green</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/app_green_dark</item>
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/action_bar_text</item>
<item name="android:textColor">@color/secondary_text_color</item>
<item name="android:color">@color/secondary_text_color</item>
<item name="colorAccent">@color/app_green</item>
<item name="android:editTextColor">@color/secondary_text_color</item>
<item name="textHeaderMaxLines">@integer/text_header_max_lines</item>
<item name="trackAbstractMaxLines">@integer/track_abstract_max_lines</item>
<item name="activatableItemBackground">@drawable/activatable_item_background</item>
<!-- ActionMode Styles -->
<item name="android:windowActionModeOverlay">true</item>
<item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item>
<item name="actionModeStyle">@style/Material.Widget.ActionMode</item>
<!-- Global UI Assignments -->
<item name="android:spinnerStyle">@style/Material.Widget.Spinner</item>
<item name="android:buttonStyle">@style/Material.Widget.Button</item>
<item name="android:checkboxStyle">@style/Material.Widget.Checkbox</item>
<item name="android:textAppearance">@android:style/TextAppearance</item>
<item name="android:popupWindowStyle">@style/Material.Window.Popup</item>
<!-- ViewPager -->
<item name="vpiCirclePageIndicatorStyle">@style/Material.Activity.Login.ViewPagerIndicator.CustomCircle</item>
<item name="buttonBarStyle">?android:buttonBarStyle</item>
<item name="buttonBarButtonStyle">?android:buttonBarButtonStyle</item>
<item name="indeterminateProgressStyle">?android:indeterminateProgressStyle</item>
<!-- API 14+ (compatibility) -->
<item name="listPreferredItemPaddingLeft">@dimen/compat_list_preferred_item_padding_left</item>
<item name="listPreferredItemPaddingRight">@dimen/compat_list_preferred_item_padding_right</item>
<item name="listPreferredItemHeightSmall">@dimen/compat_list_preferred_item_height_small</item>
</style>
I use this theme as follows:
<application
android:name=".MyApp"
android:icon="@drawable/icon"
android:logo="@null"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/Material"
android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
android:allowBackup="true">
<activity
android:name=".ui.MainActivity"
android:label="@string/title_activity_main">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity
android:name=".ui.DetailActivity"
android:label="Details"
android:theme="@style/Material.Activity" >
<meta-data
android:name="android.app.searchable"
android:resource="@xml/searchable"/>
</activity>
</application>
All of my activities derive from NavigationDrawerActivity:
/**
* An {@link Activity} that supports a Navigation Drawer, which is a pull-out panel for navigation
* menus. This drawer is pulled out from the left side of the screen (right side on RTL devices).
*/
public class NavigationDrawerActivity extends ActionBarActivity
implements AdapterView.OnItemClickListener {
private static final String LOGTAG = NavigationDrawerActivity.class.getSimpleName();
private DrawerLayout mDrawerLayout;
private ListView mDrawerList;
private LayoutInflater mInflater;
private NavigationDrawerItemAdapter mAdapter;
private ActionBarDrawerToggle mDrawerToggle;
private NavigationDrawerItem[] mNavigationDrawerItems;
private Toolbar mAppBar;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// We have to call super.setContentView() here because BaseActivity redefines setContentView(),
// and we don't want to use that.
super.setContentView(R.layout.navigation_drawer);
mInflater = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
setupNavigationDrawer();
}
@Override
protected void onPostCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onPostCreate(savedInstanceState);
// Sync the toggle state after onRestoreInstanceState has occurred.
mDrawerToggle.syncState();
}
@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
mDrawerToggle.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
}
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
return true;
}
@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
int id = item.getItemId();
switch(id) {
case android.R.id.home:
return mDrawerToggle.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
/**
* Toggles the state of the navigation drawer (i.e. closes it if it's open, and opens it if
* it's closed).
*/
public void toggleNavigationDrawer() {
if (mDrawerLayout.isDrawerOpen(GravityCompat.START)) {
closeNavigationDrawer();
} else {
openNavigationDrawer();
}
}
/**
* Opens the navigation drawer.
*/
public void openNavigationDrawer() {
mDrawerLayout.openDrawer(GravityCompat.START);
}
/**
* Closes the navigation drawer.
*/
public void closeNavigationDrawer() {
mDrawerLayout.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START);
}
/**
* Initializes items specific to the navigation drawer.
*/
private void setupNavigationDrawer() {
mDrawerLayout = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
mDrawerLayout.setStatusBarBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.wiw_green));
mAppBar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.app_bar);
setSupportActionBar(mAppBar);
ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
mDrawerToggle = new ActionBarDrawerToggle(
this, /* Our context (Activity that hosts this drawer) */
mDrawerLayout, /* The DrawerLayout where the nav drawer will be drawn */
R.string.drawer_open, /* Description of "open drawer", for accessibility */
R.string.drawer_close /* Description of "close drawer", for accessibility */
) {
/**
* Called when a drawer has settled in a completely closed state.
*/
public void onDrawerClosed(View view) {
super.onDrawerClosed(view);
supportInvalidateOptionsMenu();
}
/**
* Called when a drawer has settled in a completely open state.
*/
public void onDrawerOpened(View drawerView) {
super.onDrawerOpened(drawerView);
supportInvalidateOptionsMenu();
}
};
mDrawerList = (ListView) mDrawerLayout.findViewById(R.id.drawer_list);
mNavigationDrawerItems = buildNavDrawerItemsList();
setupAdapter(mNavigationDrawerItems);
setupNavigationDrawerHeader();
mDrawerLayout.setDrawerListener(mDrawerToggle);
mDrawerList.setOnItemClickListener(this);
}
@Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View aView, int aPosition, long aId) {
// Code not relevant
}
/**
* Set the inner content view of this {@link NavigationDrawerActivity} to have a given layout.
*
* @param aLayoutId The id of the layout to load into the inner content view of this activity.
*/
public void setDrawerContent(int aLayoutId) {
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
ViewGroup root = (ViewGroup)findViewById(R.id.drawer_content);
inflater.inflate(aLayoutId, root);
}
}
In NavigationDrawerActivity, I actually have to manually set the status bar background color (see the second line of setupNavigationDrawer()), rather than having it automatically set from colorPrimaryDark on Android 5.0 devices. Further, changing the color in either colorPrimary or colorPrimaryDark does not change the color of the status bar (although, this could be an effect from having windowTranslucentStatus set to true) or the Toolbar background color.
I'm wondering what I can do to alleviate this problem, as I think it's causing other problems in my Material-esque theme.
The documentation that you cite is referring to the native Android 5.0 Theme.Material. appcompat-v7 does not appear to be automatically applying any colors to the status bar, at least at this time.
So, for example, this sample project, when run on an Android 5.0 device, gets the status bar color, because it is using Theme.Material. This port of the same sample project to use appcompat-v7 does not. This revised version of the same sample that uses appcompat-v7 and specifically requests the status bar color change gets the color.