Hi Do you mean that by setting StatusBarBackgroundColor in edge-to-edge, it will make text colour dark if the background is light and the opposite if dark? Is there a method to set the background colour dynamically?
Alexandre Alves ________________________________ From: Manuel Beck <[email protected]> Sent: 09 September 2026 13:31 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: Alexandre Alves <[email protected]> Subject: AW: [VOTE] Deprecation of cordova-plugin-statusbar Hi, you are correct, Darrel was against your PR and I closed it 😃. But after I worked some more time on the status bar issue, I noticed that the config.xml preference „StatusBarBackgroundColor“ changes the dark/light appearance of the status bar on Android edge-to-edge mode even if the background color is not seen itself. To make it fully functional I created PR #1971 on cordova-android (https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/pull/1971) which makes it also possible with the Status Bar JavaScript API. Since iOS 18.5 the system handles the appearance automatically. To make it work on older iOS versions I fixed that with PR #1689 (https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/pull/1689), but which is not released yet. So it’s now possible to handle the dark/light appearance of the status bar with the cores only. Manuel Von: Alexandre Alves via dev <[email protected]> Datum: Mittwoch, 9. September 2026 um 14:13 An: [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: Alexandre Alves <[email protected]> Betreff: Re: [VOTE] Deprecation of cordova-plugin-statusbar Hi, I tried to push a PR (https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/pull/1917) to cordova android to be able to control the color of the content (light or dark) but the opinion was that it should not be included in the platform and developers who needed that feature would have to continue relying on the statusbar plugin. A function to control the color of the content in the statusbar is not available in each platform. If this is the case, then it should not be deprecated. Alexandre Alves ________________________________ From: Manuel Beck <[email protected]> Sent: 09 September 2026 13:04 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: AW: [VOTE] Deprecation of cordova-plugin-statusbar I have a correction to be made at the notes on point 3: cordova-android lags the possibilty of using the config.xml preference "<preference name="StatusBarOverlaysWebView" value="false" />" in non-edge-to-edge mode It should be meant lags the possibilty of using the config.xml preference "<preference name="StatusBarOverlaysWebView" value="true" />" in non-edge-to-edge mode Von: Manuel Beck <[email protected]> Datum: Mittwoch, 9. September 2026 um 13:59 An: [email protected] <[email protected]> Betreff: [VOTE] Deprecation of cordova-plugin-statusbar Hi, I want to vote for deprecating cordova-plugin-statusbar. Most of the functionality moved to cordova-android since 15.0.0 and cordov-ios since 8.0.0. I want to add a deprecation note on cordova-plugin-statusbar on top of the readme to inform people about that and directing to the blog post articles for cordova-android 15.0.0 and cordova-ios 8.0.0 where some replacements are described. PR #296 (https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-statusbar/pull/296) would add the note. Also a blog post article could be created, which informs the user of the deprecation and how to use the cores instead. Also the Status Bar JavaScript API could be mentioned there. Here are some things to note about the status bar compatibility of the cores: 1. cordova-android lagged the possibility to hide the status bar completely, which is fixed by PR #2000 (https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/pull/2000) but not released yet. 2. Since cordova-android 15.1.0 the dark/light appearance of the status bar can bet by the Status Bar JS API (https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/pull/1971). On iOS this is done automatically since iOS 18.5. For iOS older than 18.5 the PR #1689 (https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/pull/1689) fixed that, but which is not released. 3. cordova-android lags the possibilty of using the config.xml preference "<preference name="StatusBarOverlaysWebView" value="false" />" in non-edge-to-edge mode, because „StatusBarOverlaysWebView“ is not supported by the cores. On iOS this behaviour can be obtained by using "<meta name="viewport" content="viewport-fit=cover“>“, which is currently not supported by Android. Darrel opened a PR #2010 on cordova-android (https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/pull/2010) which would resolve this. I think, there will be done no more work on cordova-plugin-statusbar and the cores will take care of the functionality. Regards, Manuel <https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/pull/2000>
