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The StatusBar barStyle in android5.1 is invalid

See original GitHub issue

Is this a bug report?

yes

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

yes

Environment

Environment: OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Node: 8.4.0 Yarn: 1.0.0 npm: 5.3.0 Watchman: 4.9.0 Xcode: Xcode 9.0.1 Build version 9A1004 Android Studio: 2.3 AI-162.4069837

Packages: (wanted => installed) react: 16.0.0 => 16.0.0 react-native: 0.50.3 => 0.50.3

Steps to Reproduce

demo1:

<StatusBar barStyle="dark-content" />

demo2:

<StatusBar barStyle="light-content" />

Expected Behavior

I want demo1 status bar text color to white, demo2 status bar text color is black, but it is invalid in android5.1, the status bar text color is always white.android6.0 is ok. I do not know what to do.

Actual Behavior

is android5.1.

I change barStyle and the color of the status bar is always white.

demo:

demo1 demo2

Reproducible Demo

Need android5.1, no demo

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Reactions:6
Comments:7

Top GitHub Comments

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react-native-botcommented, May 7, 2018

This issue looks like a question that would be best asked on StackOverflow.

StackOverflow is amazing for Q&A: it has a reputation system, voting, the ability to mark a question as answered. Because of the reputation system it is likely the community will see and answer your question there. This also helps us use the GitHub bug tracker for bugs only.

Will close this as this is really a question that should be asked on StackOverflow.

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jeroenptrscommented, Apr 24, 2018

Yeah nothing is happening when I set translucent to true or false

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