How can I make the status bar white with black icons: Android 11?

Question

Before to make the android status bar have dark icons you would use the following code

// Enables Dark Status Bar Icons//
window.decorView.systemUiVisibility = View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR

With android 11 both systemUiVisibility and View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR are deprecated

How can I achieve the same result in android 11

Thanks

Answer 1

It was a lot of figuring out, but you need the WindowInsetsController. There are different ways to get this controller. Using window.insetsController or view.windowInsetsController. At application startup the window version seems to crash, so at startup I now do window.decorView.windowInsetsController.

As described here you can show or remove the light status bar like this:

setSystemBarsAppearance(APPEARANCE_LIGHT_STATUS_BARS, APPEARANCE_LIGHT_STATUS_BARS) //Show
setSystemBarsAppearance(0, APPEARANCE_LIGHT_STATUS_BARS) //Remove