Implementing theme support for images and the status bar

When dark themes first started gaining popularity, it was common for some parts of applications to remain unthemed. Needless to say, this would look odd in modern applications.

Elements such as images and status bars are an integral part of any mobile user interface. If you are not familiar with mobile-specific terminology, the status bar is the topmost stripe that shows the time, battery level, and other information.

Figure 3.7 – Android status bar

In this recipe, we will learn how to dynamically change the color of images and the status bar according to the current theme.

Getting ready

Start with the project you got after finishing the previous recipe (Implementing dark/light theme switching). This project is available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/.NET-MAUI-Cookbook/tree/main/Chapter03/c3-DarkAndLightThemes.

The code for this recipe is available at https://github.com...