title: Taking advantage of the translucent status bar in Android 4.4 KitKat
body: <p>When I released my note taking application for Android 4.0 - 4.3 I used a custom action bar color with a custom action bar icon (instead of using the standard light and dark action bars). I would like to make it so on Android 4.4, the status bar will also take on the custom color I am using in my Action Bar (which is #FFD060). Is there a way to easily change my current styles.xml to allow 4.4 to take advantage of this?</p>
  
  <p>My styles.xml under my values-v19 folder is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;resources&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light"&gt;
     &lt;item name="android:actionBarStyle"&gt;@style/MyActionBarTheme&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
   &lt;style name="MyActionBarTheme" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar"&gt;
       &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;#ffd060&lt;/item&gt;
       &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;#fff&lt;/item&gt;   
       &lt;item name="android:icon"&gt;@drawable/action&lt;/item&gt;
       &lt;item name="android:titleTextStyle"&gt;@style/MyTextAppearance&lt;/item&gt;
   &lt;/style&gt;
  
   &lt;style name="MyTextAppearance" parent="android:TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title"&gt;
       &lt;item name="android:icon"&gt;@drawable/action&lt;/item&gt;
       &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;#ffffff&lt;/item&gt;
   &lt;/style&gt;
  &lt;/resources&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried to implement:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;item name="android:windowTranslucentStatus"&gt;true&lt;/item&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It causes the contents of my application to move up, start in the status bar area and be covered by the Action Bar.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/uxuEC45.png" alt="Without the translucent code"></p>