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horxCoder
horxCoder

Reputation: 175

can we change status bar or notification bar position programmatically

I had locked my app to portrait only mode and I handled orientation changes myself, but I realized that in landscape mode the status bar stays the same, and the UI experience would be bad.

Now, that I have developed everything accordingly, the only workaround seems to be for me is to change the status bar position programmatically, since I don't(or actually can't at this point) respect system orientation changes.

Is this possible? To change the status bar position programmatically? Only inside my app and restore once I exit?

Below I have illustrated the desired effect:

first, the app is locked to portrait mode and when I rotate the device the app's views rotate since I parse the raw sensor data and apply the rotation, but in this case the status bar doesn't rotate(since the app is locked to portrait mode, and I only have access to app's views for rotation):
enter image description here

A pseudocode of how I've done the above is:

View views[] = new View[]{view1, view2, view3, view4 ....};
float rotationAngle = parseRawSensorData();//typically accelerometer input
for(View view: views){
    rotateWithAngle(rotationAngle);
}

Therefore the views rotate but the status bar is affixed.

what I'd like to do is to be able to rotate the status bar using some code like this:
enter image description here

i.e. rotate the statusbar according to the sensordata I fetch.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 1051

Answers (2)

Vlad
Vlad

Reputation: 169

Instead of rotating a status bar, you can just hide it when using your app.

Import:

import android.view.WindowManager

And write this:

getWindow().setFlags(
        WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
        WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN
    )

Upvotes: 0

Ridcully
Ridcully

Reputation: 23665

The statusbar is part of the Android system, not part of your application. So there is no way you could control that from your application.

Upvotes: 3

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