Detect soft navigation bar availability in android

Question

I am trying to determine soft navigation bar through the android program. I didn't find straight way to determine. Is there anyway to find the navigation bar availability.

Soft Navigation bar image is here.

Answer 1

As i know you can detect it by

boolean hasSoftKey = ViewConfiguration.get(context).hasPermanentMenuKey();

But it required APIs 14+

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If above solution doesn't work for you then try below method

public boolean isNavigationBarAvailable(){

        boolean hasBackKey = KeyCharacterMap.deviceHasKey(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK);
        boolean hasHomeKey = KeyCharacterMap.deviceHasKey(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME);

        return (!(hasBackKey && hasHomeKey));
    }

Answer 2

The accepted answer should work fine on most real devices, but it doesn't work in the emulators.

However, in Android 4.0 and above, there's an internal API that also works on the emulators: IWindowManager.hasNavigationBar(). You can access it using reflection:

/**
 * Returns {@code null} if this couldn't be determined.
 */
@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH)
@SuppressLint("PrivateApi")
public static Boolean hasNavigationBar() {
    try {
        Class<?> serviceManager = Class.forName("android.os.ServiceManager");
        IBinder serviceBinder = (IBinder)serviceManager.getMethod("getService", String.class).invoke(serviceManager, "window");
        Class<?> stub = Class.forName("android.view.IWindowManager$Stub");
        Object windowManagerService = stub.getMethod("asInterface", IBinder.class).invoke(stub, serviceBinder);
        Method hasNavigationBar = windowManagerService.getClass().getMethod("hasNavigationBar");
        return (boolean)hasNavigationBar.invoke(windowManagerService);
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException | ClassCastException | NoSuchMethodException | SecurityException | IllegalAccessException | IllegalArgumentException | InvocationTargetException e) {
        Log.w("YOUR_TAG_HERE", "Couldn't determine whether the device has a navigation bar", e);
        return null;
    }
}

Answer 3

Following method worked for me and tested in many devices.

public boolean hasNavBar (Resources resources)
    {
        int id = resources.getIdentifier("config_showNavigationBar", "bool", "android");
        return id > 0 && resources.getBoolean(id);
    }

Note: Verified this method in real device

Answer 4

Its a hack but it works fine. Try it.

public static boolean hasSoftKeys(WindowManager windowManager){
  Display d = windowManager.getDefaultDisplay();

  DisplayMetrics realDisplayMetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
  d.getRealMetrics(realDisplayMetrics);  

  int realHeight = realDisplayMetrics.heightPixels;
  int realWidth = realDisplayMetrics.widthPixels;

  DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
  d.getMetrics(displayMetrics);

  int displayHeight = displayMetrics.heightPixels;
  int displayWidth = displayMetrics.widthPixels;

  return (realWidth - displayWidth) > 0 || (realHeight - displayHeight) > 0;
}

Answer 5

Try this method,in this way you can detect if the navigation bar exist.

@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN_MR1)
public boolean hasNavBar(Context context) {
    Point realSize = new Point();
    Point screenSize = new Point();
    boolean hasNavBar = false;
    DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
    this.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getRealMetrics(metrics);
    realSize.x = metrics.widthPixels;
    realSize.y = metrics.heightPixels;
    getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getSize(screenSize);
    if (realSize.y != screenSize.y) {
        int difference = realSize.y - screenSize.y;
        int navBarHeight = 0;
        Resources resources = context.getResources();
        int resourceId = resources.getIdentifier("navigation_bar_height", "dimen", "android");
        if (resourceId > 0) {
            navBarHeight = resources.getDimensionPixelSize(resourceId);
        }
        if (navBarHeight != 0) {
            if (difference == navBarHeight) {
                hasNavBar = true;
            }
        }

    }
    return hasNavBar;

}