I’ve done some searching and I can’t find a solution to this (if there is one).
Setting display.HiddenStatusBar, display.DefaultStatusBar, and display.DarkStatusBar all work as expected for me on device (testing on a Moto X, running 4.4.2). Hidden simply hides it, and default/dark show it as standard in-app dark bar.
However, I am not successful in getting display.TranslucentStatusBar to work. When I set it, the status bar shows as the standard in-app dark bar. I know that it does say in the API overview that display.setStatusBar() works on “certain devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android 2.x devices).” But, the fact that the other 3 seem to work on my 4.4.2 device (or arguably, at least just the display.HiddenStatusBar) gave me hope I could do something. (And I know that Android 4.4 was the first time 3rd party app developers could set the status bar as translucent in-app through the regular Android development).
Could someone please clear this up for me? Thanks for your time.