How do I change the color of the bar status icons in Material Design

Question

I need to change icon colors equal to app of Google Agenda, as shown in the image below:

I saw that in Material Design you have the options colorPrimaryDark but you don’t have to change the color of the icons. Someone can help me?

Answer 1

Just you define how true the property windowLightStatusBar in the style inside the file styles.xml. This way, icons will be changed to gray (no custom colors). See:

<item name="android:windowLightStatusBar">true</item>

Note: This only works from the API 23. For example: values-v23/styles.xml. Or you can enter the property targetApi being like 23 in this way:

<item name="android:windowLightStatusBar" tools:targetApi="23">true</item>

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It is also possible to do this programmatically, see:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
    View decor = getWindow().getDecorView();
    if (shouldChangeStatusBarTintToDark) {
        decor.setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR);
    } else {
        decor.setSystemUiVisibility(0);
    }
}

Note that you first need to check the SDK version you are using.