Height of status bar in Android [duplicate]

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/