Height of status bar in Android [duplicate]

Answer 1

I have the same problem of having to get the status bar height in an onCreate. This works for me.

private static final int LOW_DPI_STATUS_BAR_HEIGHT = 19;

private static final int MEDIUM_DPI_STATUS_BAR_HEIGHT = 25;

private static final int HIGH_DPI_STATUS_BAR_HEIGHT = 38;

Inside the onCreate:

DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
((WindowManager) getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(displayMetrics);

int statusBarHeight;

switch (displayMetrics.densityDpi) {
    case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_HIGH:
        statusBarHeight = HIGH_DPI_STATUS_BAR_HEIGHT;
        break;
    case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_MEDIUM:
        statusBarHeight = MEDIUM_DPI_STATUS_BAR_HEIGHT;
        break;
    case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_LOW:
        statusBarHeight = LOW_DPI_STATUS_BAR_HEIGHT;
        break;
    default:
        statusBarHeight = MEDIUM_DPI_STATUS_BAR_HEIGHT;
}

See:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/DisplayMetrics.html http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design.html