Honeycomb Status Bar remains dark even with Holo Light theme

Question

Even after selecting a Holo light theme the status bar at the bottom still remains black. My client wants the theme of the software to be light, and the contrasting black status bar with holo light white background is a real eyesore and worst of all you cant remove this bar either. I know you can hide it but its still black.

so my question is, is there something that i am missing that would turn my status bar into something less contrasting, something like

View v = findViewById(R.id.myview);
v.setSystemUiVisibility(View.STATUS_BAR_HOLO_LIGHT);

or is there a way to make it translucent...

or is that the way it is in honeycomb either your app has a dark backgrounds or you are stuck with ugly white app with black status bar.

Answer 1

There is no way to change the status bar colour.

setSystemUiVisibility is only used to dim the status bar:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#setSystemUiVisibility(int)

View v = findViewById(R.id.myview);
v.setSystemUiVisibility(View.STATUS_BAR_HIDDEN);