Detect soft navigation bar availability in android device progmatically?

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.

Answer 1

Other answers don't help me. But it's quite useful to know if navigation bar is shown, especially after Android P/Q, where user can swipe it out of screen. I've encounter this article https://blog.stylingandroid.com/gesture-navigation-window-insets/ and made such method

fun hasNavBar(activity: Activity): Boolean {
    val temporaryHidden = activity.window.decorView.visibility and View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION != 0
    if (temporaryHidden) return false
    val decorView = activity.window.decorView
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
        decorView.rootWindowInsets?.let{
            return it.stableInsetBottom != 0
        }
    }
    return true
}