Status Bar Colors

Status Bar Colors is a Kotlin utility library which aids in manipulating the Android platform's status bar.

Dependencies

The sample implementation of this library uses DesignColors to provide random colors. This is already bundled into the sample project.

Installation

• The main file (StatusBarColors.kt) is a singleton object class which can be copied directly to your working directory. It contains no external dependencies apart from Android SDK classes.
• Also the (Extensions.kt) file contains optional Kotlin extensions which can be helpful to shorten code syntax.

Advantages

• This library uses up-to-date Kotlin code for status bar manipulation and supports Android API 23+.
• Most available libraries still use the deprecated WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS which works on older Android API but this becomes problematic when handling newer Android APIs. This library solves the problem.

Uses

Use Status Bar Colors when you need to manipulate the Android status bar without worrying too much about implementation details and deprecated code.

Usage

• Suppose there is a blue color in colors.xml

<color name="blue">#FF0000FF</color>

• To change the status bar color to blue:

val blueColor = ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.blue)
StatusBarColors.setStatusBarColor(activity, blueColor)

• An optional alpha value (range = 0-255) can be passed into the setStatusBarColor() function:

val blueColor = ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.blue)
StatusBarColors.setStatusBarColor(activity, blueColor, 50)

• To get the current status bar color:

  StatusBarColors.getStatusBarColor(activity)

• To change the status bar color to a gradient color, you would need a View which is anchored directly under the status bar. This is usually a Toolbar or an AppbarLayout. The trick here is that the status bar goes transparent and uses the background of the View directly underneath it as its background.

NOTE: The View's background MUST be a GradientDrawable. See sample implementation for more details.

Create a Toolbar:

<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
android:id="@+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="@color/blue"/>

Retrieve the Toolbar and set its background to a GradientDrawable:

val mToolbar = findViewById<Toolbar>(R.id.toolbar)
val colors = intArrayOf(0xff000000, 0xff000000)
val gradientDrawable = GradientDrawable(GradientDrawable.Orientation.LEFT_RIGHT, colors)
mToolbar.background = gradientDrawable
StatusBarColors.setGradientColor(activity, mToolbar)

• To make the status bar transparent for the current Activity:

StatusBarColors.setTransparentForWindow(activity)

• In situations where you have a transparent status bar and you need to add a padding to give an illusion that the status bar is still available or in any similar situation:

StatusBarColors.setPaddingTop(context, view)

The view parameter is the View or ViewGroup anchored directly under the status bar.

• To switch between dark and light status bar icons:

StatusBarColors.setDarkStatusBarIcons(activity) //switch to dark tinted icons
StatusBarColors.setLightStatusBarIcons(activity) //switch to light colored icons

Light Mode:

Dark Mode:

• To retrieve the default height of the status bar:

StatusBarColors.getDefaultStatusBarHeight(context)

You can also listen for changes to the status bar background color, gradient background color and transparency changes.

• Listen for gradient color changes:

StatusBarColors.apply {
    setGradientColor(this@MainActivity, mToolbar)
    statusBarColorChangeListener = object: StatusBarColors.OnStatusBarColorChangeListener {
        override fun onColorChange(color: Int) {}
        override fun onGradientColorChange(colorArray: GradientDrawable?) {
            colorArray?.let {
                Toast.makeText(this@MainActivity, "Status bar color changed to gradient!!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
            } 
        }
    }
}

• Listen for transparency changes:

StatusBarColors.apply {
    setTransparentForWindow(this@TransparencyActivity)
    transparencyChangeListener = object : StatusBarColors.OnTransparencyChangeListener {
        override fun onTransparencyChange(transparent: Boolean) {
            if(transparent) {
                Toast.makeText(this@TransparencyActivity, "Status bar is transparent!!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
            }
        }
    }
}

• Listen for background color changes:

StatusBarColors.setStatusBarColor(color, statusBarColorChangeListener =  object: StatusBarColors.OnStatusBarColorChangeListener{
    override fun onColorChange(color: Int) { 
        Toast.makeText(this@MainActivity, "Status bar color changed!!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
    }
    override fun onGradientColorChange(colorArray: GradientDrawable?) {}
    }
)

Java Interoperability

This library is completely interoperable with Java projects.

Changelog

• 1.0.0
  • Initial release

License

Copyright (C) 2022 IO DevBlue

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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