Splash screen using android:windowBackground does goes behind statusbar

I am creating a Xamarin forms application and want to create a splash screen which has the same background as the first screen in my app. I have successfully created a splash screen using a layer-list approach and set the windowbackground in the style.xml file. However, the background image seems to go behind the status bar.

I have tried setting the false property - but it still is going behind the status bar.

I have attached a screenshot of what is happening - you can see that one is starting behind the status bar and one is starting below it.

If I set android:top="25dp" on my items in the layer-list everything loads as expected - but I dont really want to do that.

Here is the code i have so far:

splash.axml (layer-list)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <shape
            android:shape="rectangle">
            <gradient
                android:angle="44.99999887805831"
                android:endColor="#FFCB2758"
                android:startColor="#FF41157D"
                android:type="linear"/>
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item>
        <bitmap
            android:gravity="fill_horizontal|fill_vertical"
            android:src="@drawable/shades"
            android:padding="10dp"/>
    </item>
</layer-list> 

styles.xml

<style name="Theme.Splash" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
  <item name="android:windowBackground">@layout/splash</item>
  <item name="android:windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds">false</item>
</style>

SplashScreenActivity

[Activity(Label = "DimplexControl", Icon = "@drawable/icon", Theme = "@style/Theme.Splash", NoHistory =true, MainLauncher = true, ConfigurationChanges = ConfigChanges.ScreenSize | ConfigChanges.Orientation)]
    public class SplashScreenActivity : Activity
    {
        protected override void OnCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
        {
            base.OnCreate(savedInstanceState);
            StartActivity(typeof(MainActivity));
            // Create your application here
        }
    }

Please help...