[BUG] StatusBarBehavior doesn't update dynamically on Android

[mduchev-racebox]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Did you read the "Reporting a bug" section on Contributing file?

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Current Behavior

When a StatusBarBehavior's StatusBarColor is bound to a property, that dynamically changes, it not only doesn't update correctly, but doesn't render properly initially.

Expected Behavior

When a StatusBarBehavior's StatusBarColor is bound to a property, that dynamically changes, it updates the status bar's color according to the property's value.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Open and run the solution from the reproduction project
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Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/mduchev-racebox/StatusBarBehaviorColorBug

Environment

- .NET MAUI CommunityToolkit: 13.0.0
- OS: macOS Tahoe 26.2
- .NET MAUI: 10.0.101

Anything else?

As it can be seen from the demo project, the status bar style (light/dark) changes properly. The issue happens on Android only. The same code works fine on iOS. If I try to manually change it via StatusBar.SetColor, the functionality is still not working.

Tested on Google Pixel 10 phone, with Android 16.

[TFreudi1]

Same thing here, tested a lot that I found on the I-Net for some hours, but none worked on my real S26.
The only solution for me is lowering the android targetversion in the manifest to 34.
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="21" android:targetSdkVersion="34"/>