title: How to change the background color of android status bar
body: <p>I want to change the background color of the status bar by writing an application. My android device has black color, I want to change it to some other color. I saw some posts related to it here,  but they are telling about notification background.</p>
  
  <p>If any body knows about this please help me.</p>
  
  <p>The default status bar</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DGTX0.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>After using a drawable as background to status bar</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/k6Kzp.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>