title: Status bar always appears black with AppCompatActivity
body: <p>My status bar always appear black. I tried multiple fix but nothing does the tricks... I can't believe something as simple is that complicated</p>
  
  <p>Here is my Style.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;style name="AppTheme" parent="BaseTheme" /&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="BaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"&gt;
      &lt;item name="colorPrimary"&gt;@color/cobalt&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="colorPrimaryDark"&gt;@color/cobalt_dark&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="colorControlHighlight"&gt;@color/cobalt_light&lt;/item&gt;     
      &lt;item name="colorAccent"&gt;@color/cobalt_light&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is my v21/style.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;style name="AppTheme" parent="BaseTheme"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:colorControlHighlight"&gt;@color/cobalt_light&lt;/item&gt;     
      &lt;item name="android:statusBarColor"&gt;@color/cobalt_light&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is my Activity:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public class ActivityLogin extends AppCompatActivity {
   //...
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My manifest</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="com.plante.android.cobalt"
      android:versionName="7"&gt;
  
      &lt;uses-sdk
          android:minSdkVersion="17"
          android:targetSdkVersion="21" /&gt;
  
      &lt;application
          android:name=".CobaltApplication"
          android:allowBackup="true"
          android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
          android:label="@string/app_name"
          android:theme="@style/AppTheme”&gt;
          &lt;meta-data
              android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
              android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" /&gt;
  
          &lt;activity
              android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
              android:name=".activityv2.ActivityLogin"
              android:label="@string/app_name"
              android:screenOrientation="portrait"&gt;
  
              &lt;intent-filter&gt;
                  &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;
                  &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;
              &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
  
          &lt;activity
              android:name=".activityv2.ActivityHome"
              android:label="Home"
              android:screenOrientation="portrait"&gt;
              &lt;intent-filter&gt;
                  &lt;action android:name="android.nfc.action.TECH_DISCOVERED" /&gt;
              &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
              &lt;meta-data
                  android:name="android.nfc.action.TECH_DISCOVERED"
                  android:resource="@xml/nfc_tag_filter" /&gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
          &lt;activity
              android:name=".activityv2.ActivitySplash"
              android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|screenSize"
              android:screenOrientation="portrait"
              android:theme="@style/SplashTheme"&gt;
              &lt;intent-filter&gt;
                  &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;
  
                  &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;
              &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
      &lt;/application&gt;
  </code></pre>