Capacitor StatusBar Plugin uses Deprecated Android APIs

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My Android mobile app uses the Capacitor StatusBar plugin. Specifically I call the StatusBar.setStyle method. For now, it seems to work. But Google has issued new requirements for Android apps targeting Android 35+, and they must use new Android “edge-to-edge” APIs. As part of the edge-to-edge requirements, Google has deprecated various Android APIs that the StatusBar plugin uses.

When I submit my mobile app to the Google Play store, there are warnings about this deprecated API usage, as seen in screen-cap image. Is there an effort underway to rework the StatusBar plugin to comply with the edge-to-edge Android APIs? Or, is there an alternative to the StatusBar plugin?

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Here is an open issue - https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor-plugins/issues/2297

Since they are just deprecated, I wouldn’t worry about it right now. I would assume the Capacitor team will update the plugin before Android completely removes the APIs it is currently using.