Now that I think of it.. maybe it would be nice to also have the ability to control the navigation bar color?

And on the subject of statusbar: Chrome doesn't allow a light statusbar color (with dark icons)? It seems as if it maxes out on a certain brightness value and keeps the icons white?

Update: Now that I had a look at the white navigation bar in Chrome 64 (stable) I feel like we definitely need to be able to theme the navigation bar. It looks absolutely horrible and distracts from the actual content - especially when displaying a site that uses a dark theme.

hannahs@ is looking at updating our theme color treatment for status bar color M+, where we have the ability to set status bar icons to grey. This would allow us to match the toolbar color rather than tinting the status bar darker. We're still in early stages of UX planning and need to seek approvals before passing work to eng.

Great to hear that!

Hi there,

I've noticed that the not-darkened statusbar theme color has rolled out in Chrome 69. But.. it doesn't work for PWA in standalone mode.

Any chance this is an oversight?

Any news on this??

We match the status bar color to the toolbar color on newer versions of Android where setting dark status bar icons is supported. As such, I don't think we need to support a new meta-data tag.

PWA's not behaving as expected does sound like it might be a bug.

+Pedro since he's been working on some theme color stuff lately. Matt/Pedro, any thoughts on this?

The custom status bar color seems to work correctly for PWAs in the cases I've tried (on ToT and Beta 72). Is there a specific example you have that doesn't work?

One example would be https://icerrr2.rejh.nl

I set the background color and meta-theme attribute bases on the color of the station/album artwork. The status bar is consistently darker than the color I set.

See screenshot (I use a gradient from a dark variant of the color to the actual color but the status bar is still darker than both variants).

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PS: I'm on Chrome 71 stable, Android 9 Pie, Pixel 2016

Hm, ok turns out I am able to repro, I'll try to take a look this week.

Great, thanks :)

On the topic of a separate status bar meta tag: I think there are still use cases for having the ability to set status bar, app bar and maybe even navigation bar separately. Removing the 'darkening' of the theme color for the status bar helps a lot (because we can then set the exact color instead of some interpretation) but it doesn't negate the other use cases..?