How to change the status bar color in Android?

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First of all it’s not a duplicate as in How to change the background color of android status bar

How do I change the status bar color which should be same as in navigation bar.

I want the status bar color to be same as the navigation bar color

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Android 5.0 Lollipop introduced Material Design theme which automatically colors the status bar based on the colorPrimaryDark value of the theme.

Note by realdognose: with Material Design library it will be colorPrimaryVariant

This is supported on device pre-lollipop thanks to the library support-v7-appcompat starting from version 21. Blogpost about support appcompat v21 from Chris Banes

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Read more about the Material Theme on the official Android Developers website

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