Transparent status bar not working with windowTranslucentNavigation="false"

As far as I know there's no proper way to set the color of the status bar on APIs lower than 19.

For API 19+ you can use a similar attribute to windowTranslucentNavigation only for the status bar:

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

Notes:

• The reason you were getting a white status bar is because of

  <item name="android:statusBarColor">@color/transparent</item> 
  

• There are some hacks that work on specific manufacturer devices, but I wouldn't use them myself.

android:windowTranslucentNavigation does one thing that android:statusBarColor doesn't do, which is requesting the SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE and SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN flags.

These are the ones that you need to request in order to draw behind the status bar.

Request them in the onCreate of your Activity:

getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN);

Alternatively you can also simply set your apps theme background and that will also pop up behind your status bar.

More information here.

I struggle with this for over 3 hours. Wrap everything in a CoordinatorLayout it is the only one that seems to pay attention to the fitsSystemWindow="true" or "false"

This is my main activity fragment

<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/content_main"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <include layout="@layout/layout_google_map"/>

    <include layout="@layout/layout_toolbar_transparent"/>

    <include layout="@layout/layout_action_buttons"/>

    <include layout="@layout/layout_bottom_sheet"/>

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

this is my toolbar layout

<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@android:color/transparent"
        android:theme="@style/ToolbarTheme"
        app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay">

        <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatImageView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="?actionBarSize"
            android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:adjustViewBounds="true"
            app:srcCompat="@drawable/ic_fynd_logo_red"/>

    </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

as you can see, my fragment layout makes the google map be drawn under the status bar.

I have an action bar where the company's logo goes.

And other ui buttons "layout_action_buttons" also wrapped in a Coordinator layout , so the fitsSystemsWindows works.

Check it out.