Dark icons on status bar

[Tored]

can I somehow change the status bar icons to dark on a desktop? doesn't seem to be an option in the "system bars" subcategory.

[Pierrot]

No, you need root for that. This is managed by the Android system UI, outside of the launcher scope.

[Tored]

No, you need root for that. This is managed by the Android system UI, outside of the launcher scope.

I've seen other launchers like lawnchair do it, are you sure it's not possible?

[TrianguloY]

It seems there is a way to tell android to draw dark icons, either from a theme attribute or programmatically, with this script:

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bindClass("android.view.View");
getHomeScreen().getContext().getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR);

However it doesn't work for me, and it seems it doesn't work on a lot of devices, but...you can try.

[Note: this only works on android M and above]

[Pierrot]

Interesting! I wasn't aware of this possibility!

[JayM]

cool, works for me

[JayM]

Ok this works but soon as I open an app then go back to the launcher homescreen the icons are light again. If I press the home button they turn dark I tried setting the script in resume/load/paused but it didn't make a difference.

[TrianguloY]

As I said I can't test it, but perhaps the issue is that the script needs to be run after some other code.
What if you write it inside a setTimeout?

setTimeout(function(){
bind...
get...
},0);//or try with 1, 50, 100...

[JayM]

As I said I can't test it, but perhaps the issue is that the script needs to be run after some other code.
What if you write it inside a setTimeout?

setTimeout(function(){
bind...
get...
},0);//or try with 1, 50, 100...

Works great with a timeout of 100 thanks

[Pierrot]

I have added these options to the next beta, thanks for the hint!

[JayM]

nice! thanks