How to change the color of the Statusbar?

Question

How do I change the color of this part of the app? I wanted to put everything in the same green color as this one below.

Answer 1

Just edit your file styles.xml

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/suaCor</item>
</style>

depending on the API permissions it is possible to use the setStatusBarColor()

Here has a Google tutorial on color palette

Answer 2

Statusbar color is by default the color assigned to colorPrimaryDark.
In versions below 21 it is only possible to change it by changing the colorPrimaryDark. Which means that every component that uses that color has also changed it.

In equal or higher versions it is possible to do it in the application style using android:statusBarColor

<resources>
    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>

        <item name="android:statusBarColor">#ff00</item>
    </style>
</resources>

or, via code

getWindow().setStatusBarColor(Color.RED);