Hi, there is no transparent status bar in Android.
In iOS it’s working fine but in Android there is black status bar.
Examples:
My app without status bar styling:
Lolipop app with transparent status bar:
Lolipop app with transparent status bar:
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Someone know any cordova plugin?
i looked around a little time ago and there are only pre-defined color-schemes you can use.
You are not allowed to hide or set the color transparent on android.
But maybe someone else knows a little bit more.
Not allowed to make status bar transparent?
But every native material design app doing it…
I don’t think it’s possible as well. I went into the android source code for the status bar to make sure and couldn’t find anything.
But I don’t think its really a big deal, not really a big detail when you look at an app.
This should do the job?
http://www.martinadamko.sk/posts/translucent-bar-android-278
I am not on my pc for the next days so I don’t know if it’s working.
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Tested it, seems to work pretty well. Should get you what you want.
Thanks you. I will use this plugin.
wow, learning never stops 
I have problem to install this plugin.
This is my error:
Fetching from npm failed: No compatible version found: git@'github.com:ekuwang/cordova-plugin-statusbar.git'
Valid install targets:
["0.1.0","0.1.1","0.1.2","0.1.3","0.1.4","0.1.5"]
Error: No compatible version found: git@'github.com:ekuwang/cordova-plugin-statusbar.git'
Valid install targets:
["0.1.0","0.1.1","0.1.2","0.1.3","0.1.4","0.1.5"]
at installTargetsError (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cache.js:719:10)
at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cache.js:638:10
at saved (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/get.js:142:7)
at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs/polyfills.js:133:7
at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:95:15)
Any solution? How you made it work?
Hmm, I just ionic plugin add https://github.com/ekuwang/cordova-plugin-statusbar.git and it worked fine for me.
I think this has also been documented as a formula as well. http://learn.ionicframework.com/formulas/customizing-the-status-bar/
Comparing the formula to the current docs for cordova-plugin-statusbar, it looks like the formula could use some updating.
Did you manage to get this working? I tried but can’t get it to work at all
I’ve installed the plugin but sometimes it work and sometimes not, when it works, if i touch the statusbar it hides and goes fullscreen, even the navbar hides. What i can do? Help please 
The link http://www.martinadamko.sk/posts/translucent-bar-android-278 does not work any more. Is it possible to post the entire solution?
Just making the page below the single go to location for the solution for Ionic2: