Height of status bar in Android

Question

What's the height of the status bar in Android? Is it always the same?

From my measurements it seems that it's 25dp, but I'm not sure if it has the same height on all platforms.

(I want to know this to properly implement a fade transition from an activity that doesn't have status bar to one that does)

Answer 1

Out of all the code samples I've used to get the height of the status bar, the only one that actually appears to work in the onCreate method of an Activity is this:

public int getStatusBarHeight() {
    int result = 0;
    int resourceId = getResources().getIdentifier("status_bar_height", "dimen", "android");
    if (resourceId > 0) {
        result = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(resourceId);
    }
    return result;
}

Apparently the actual height of the status bar is kept as an Android resource. The above code can be added to a ContextWrapper class (e.g. an Activity).

Found at http://mrtn.me/blog/2012/03/17/get-the-height-of-the-status-bar-in-android/

Answer 2

This issue recently became relevant for me because of the notch in my Pixel 3XL. I really liked android developer's solution, but I wanted to be able to get the status bar height at will, since it was specifically necessary for a full screen animation that I needed to play. The function below enabled a reliable query:

private val DEFAULT_INSET = 96
fun getInsets(view: View?): Int {
     var inset = DEFAULT_INSET
     if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {//Safe because only P supports notches
          inset = view?.rootWindowInsets?.stableInsetTop ?: DEFAULT_INSET
     }
     return inset
}

fun blurView(rootView: View?, a: SpacesActivity?) {
    val screenBitmap = getBitmapFromView(rootView!!)
    val heightDifference = getInsets(rootView)
    val croppedMap = Bitmap.createBitmap(
                    screenBitmap, 0, heightDifference,
                    screenBitmap.width,
                    screenBitmap.height - heightDifference)
    val blurredScreen = blurBitmap(croppedMap)
    if (blurredScreen != null) {
         val myDrawable = BitmapDrawable(a!!.resources, blurredScreen)
         a.errorHudFrameLayout?.background = myDrawable
         a.appBarLayout?.visibility = View.INVISIBLE
   }
}

And then in the activity class:

fun blurView() {
    this.runOnUiThread {
        Helper.blurView(this)
    }
}

You will of course want to make pass a weak reference of the activity to the static Helper class method parameter, but for the sake of brevity I refrained in this example. The blurBitmapand errorHudFrameLayout are omitted for the same reason, since they don't directly pertain to obtaining the height of the status bar.

Answer 3

I've merged some solutions together:

public static int getStatusBarHeight(final Context context) {
    final Resources resources = context.getResources();
    final int resourceId = resources.getIdentifier("status_bar_height", "dimen", "android");
    if (resourceId > 0)
        return resources.getDimensionPixelSize(resourceId);
    else
        return (int) Math.ceil((VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.M ? 24 : 25) * resources.getDisplayMetrics().density);
    }

another alternative:

    final View view = findViewById(android.R.id.content);
    runJustBeforeBeingDrawn(view, new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            int statusBarHeight = getResources().getDisplayMetrics().heightPixels - view.getMeasuredHeight();
        }
    });

EDIT: Alternative to runJustBeforeBeingDrawn: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28136027/878126

Answer 4

If you know exactly the size VS height

like

for example in a device with 320 X 480 screen size the status bar height is 25px, for a device with 480 x 800 the status bar height must be 38px

then you can just get the width of your view / the screen size you can just use an if else statement to get the height of status bar

Answer 5

On MDPI devices, the status bar is 25px. We can use this as the base and multiply it by the density (rounded up) to get the status bar height on any device:

int statusBarHeight = Math.ceil(25 * context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density);

For reference: ldpi=.75, mdpi=1, hdpi=1.5, xhdpi=2

Answer 6

The reason why the top answer does not work for some people is because you cannot get the dimensions of a view until it is ready to render. Use an OnGlobalLayoutListener to get said dimensions when you actually can:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    final ViewGroup decorView = (ViewGroup) this.getWindow().getDecorView();
    decorView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
        @Override
        public void onGlobalLayout() {
            if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 16) {
                decorView.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this);
            } else {
                // Nice one, Google
                decorView.getViewTreeObserver().removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);
            }
            Rect rect = new Rect();
            decorView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(rect);
            rect.top; // This is the height of the status bar
        }
    }
}

This is the most reliable method.