Change the background color of safe-area of the android app using capacitor 7

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Hi,

I have a project on capacitor 7, which runs on Android, iOS, and web as well. This project was on capacitor 6, and I migrated it to capacitor 7, so I had to update the Android target to 15.

To solve the safe area problem, we are using @capacitor-community/safe-area package, but we have an issue as here we dont have the option to update the custom color to the safe-area, this package suggests not to use @capacitor/status-bar This safe-area package itself doesn’t provide a feature to change the status bar or safe area background color.

Please provide me a solution for this.

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If you are using the Safe Area plugin, then most likely you want to support Android’s Edge-to-Edge feature which expands your app the the edges of the screen. In this case, you don’t set the background color as your app content is in that area. You just need to set the System Bar styles.

If you want to disable edge-to-edge, then take a look at Android Edge-to-Edge Support Plugin for Capacitor - Capawesome.

Reliable Edge-to-Edge in Ionic 8 and Capacitor 7 is also a good resource.