How to make your status bar transparent like in Nexus 5

We all know Nexus 5.. We all know how cool it is.. how cool KitKat is... And we've all notice the transparent status bar and buttons. But since we've all got phone with the home, menu, back, etc. buttons not on on our screen (almost all), We've got you here a guide for making your status bar transparent. A bit of editing in your SystemUI.apk and you're done. This guide is simple and easy to follow and you'll love the Nexus feel for sure. So here you go:

    


Tools needed:
Apk-MultitoolSystemUI.apk(of your phone)
Winrar
Notepad++

SystemUI.apk

The first thing is to find the file. It is found in System/app/SystemUI.apk. Go there with Root Explorer. 
Copy the file to your SD card. 



Editing


Open Apk-MultiTool folder. Double click on Setup.exe. A command prompt will be executed.Enter Option “2″ and press Enter.Follow the On-Screen Instructions and Install all the available frameworks. Go back by entering the option “6″ and by pressing Enter. Enter option “3″ and set up all the available directories one by one. Place your SystemUI.apk in the “place-apk-here-for-modding” folder.
Open Script.exe.You will be getting a coded Android Diagram.Press Enter.

In the command prompt,Enter option “9″ and press Enter.This will decompile your apk.(During this whole process,the command prompt should not be closed.)
Your decompiled Apk sources will be in “projects” folder.Open the projects folder.You will find the SystemUI folder.Open it.You will find the below folders and files for sure
Res
Smali
AndroidManifest
apktool.yml


Now locate “Res/layout/status_bar”.
Open “status_bar” with Notepad++.
Press “Ctrl+F” and search for “android:background”.
In the first line,it will be found.Now change the hexadecimal colour code to “#00000000″.
That is,change to this :
android:background=”#00000000″ android:focusable=”true” android:descendantFocusability=”afterDescendants”

Use the find option  and search for “android:background”.Ignore the first search result as you hae already edited the first line.The second result will be found at the end.
Change to this :
android:background=”#00000000″ android:layout_width=”wrap_content” android:layout_height=”fill_parent” android:singleLine=”true” />

Note : The codings may differ for different mobiles.I have used Micromax A52 for this tutorial/guide.For easy understanding,refer the screenshot.

Now save and go back to the Apk-MultiTool folder.
In the command prompt,press “11″ to recompile the system apk.It will ask “y/n”.Enter “y” and press Enter.
It will Extract and again it will compile to reduce the amount of errors.The below instructions can be skipped,but to ensure that the SystemUI should work,they are recommanded.Actually this feature is already ben done when you have given “y” option in command prompt.
Now open the SystemUI.apk and the unsignedSystemUI.apk in winrar.
Now locate “Res/layout/status_bar” in both the windows.
Now drag and drop the status_bar from unsignedSystemUI.apk window to SystemUI.apk window.
When it asks to replace,give “yes”.
Now the SystemUI in the projects folder is the themed one.

You can manually replace it with root permissions or you can flash it by making it a flashable zip.By this way,you can also do futher editings.