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Seamless Edge-to-Edge UI Support in Android 15

Make your app more modern

Danish Amjad
Nerd For Tech

With Android 15, the support of edge-to-edge is mandatory to make the look and feel of the application more immersive and a better user experience.

One thing that has changed is that the status bar color now defaults to transparent, to improve the visual flow of your app.

Recently, I received a recommendation from Google Play Console that your application uses the deprecated APIs for edge-to-edge, to support the edge-to-edge, you have to migrate to Android 15.

Warning from Google Play Console

In this article, we will explore how we can migrate to Android 15 edge-to-edge and how you can change/update the status bar color.

Step 1: Add Dependency

Add this dependency to our Android project in the app/build.gradle file:

dependencies {

implementation("androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.7.0")
}

Note: At the time of writing, the latest androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.7.0 version was 1.7.0, but you can use any of the latest stable releases you want from the documentation.

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