How To Change The Status Bar Icon Color In Kitkat And Lollipop?

I want to change the color of status bar icons in my app. I googled it a lot but i did not found any thing. Plz provide me any help. For API below 23. Thanks

Solution 1:

This is possible on API level 23 and higher

<item name="android:windowLightStatusBar">true</item>

Solution 2:

Extracted from https://stackoverflow.com/a/24997241/6296561 :

Android 5.0 Lollipop introduced Material Design theme which automatically colors the status bar based on the ColorPrimaryDark value of the theme.

This is supported on device pre-lollipop thanks to the library support-v7-appcompat starting from version 21.