Android Hide Navigation Bar/Stay in Immersive Mode with Soft Keyboard Appearance

Question

Working on a client\'s app that is using immersive mode to hide the navigation bar and status bar on every activity using the following code:

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Answer 1

Here is my solution for this ; First I checked if soft keyboard is showed up or not:

getWindow().getDecorView().getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
            @Override
            public void onGlobalLayout() {

                Rect r = new Rect();
                getWindow().getDecorView().getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);
                int screenHeight = getWindow().getDecorView().getRootView().getHeight();

                int keypadHeight = screenHeight - r.bottom;

                //Log.d(TAG, "keypadHeight = " + keypadHeight);

                if (keypadHeight > screenHeight * 0.15) { 
                     //Keyboard is opened
                     hideNavBar();
                }
                else {
                    // keyboard is closed
                }
            }
        });

And I have a hideNavBar() method to be triggered when soft keyboard is showed up.

private void hideNavBar() {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 19) {
        View v = getWindow().getDecorView();
        v.setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE
                | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_HIDE_NAVIGATION
                | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN
                | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION
                | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN
                | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_IMMERSIVE_STICKY);
    }
}

This solves the problem of getting navigation bar while there is an Edittext to be typed.