Android showing status bar overlay

Hey, tried to look around for an answer to it. At best I found something on stack overflow, but I didn’t really get the answer.
I know you can swipe down to show the status bar, but I would like to have it always visible at the top.
I notice a lot of apps have it, and its generally half seen through, making what its hovering over a bit darker.

Is this possible?
I’m mostly used to blueprint’s, but if it can be done with an extra C++ thing, then that would be great too.
Or maybe there is some command or something to put in when I packages it.

Bump. Bump.

Hi, just in case anyone else comes across this thread someday like I did looking for a solution to this. I’ve just uploaded a plugin that I made to do this.

Link:

This is for 4.18.
It adds a config option in Project Settings to show the status bar on Android.
It’s also got the following nodes:

  • Set status bar visibility
  • Get start intent string extra by key name
  • Set screen orientation to landscape
  • Set screen orientation to portrait
  • Check is app installed
  • Open an external app by package name

@andrekek

Is there any way to do this?

Good morning, I can’t believe that even today, in 2025, it’s still not possible to activate the Status Bar (Time and Battery). I’ve tried everything and it’s been impossible. Is it really that difficult to add that option?

Unreal developers, please do something about this. I don’t think it’s that difficult. If you want to use Unreal on Android as an application, as is my case, to follow the financial markets, it’s a shame that you can’t see the time.