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

I think that is not possible. Here

Flutter: How to show onscreen keyboard without android's bottom navigation bar on focusing a textfield?

is stated clearly and my experience seems to confirm it.

the following code placed in an activity

private var appVisibility:Int = (  View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE
                                or View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_HIDE_NAVIGATION
                                or View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN
                                or View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LOW_PROFILE
                                or View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION
                                or View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN
                                or View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_IMMERSIVE_STICKY)

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
    window.decorView.systemUiVisibility = appVisibility

}
override fun onResume() {
    super.onResume()
    updateUI()
}
fun updateUI() {
    val decorView = window.decorView
    decorView.setOnSystemUiVisibilityChangeListener { visibility ->
        if (visibility and View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN == 0) {
            decorView.systemUiVisibility = appVisibility
        }
    }
}

correctly hides the nav bar always (when you swipe from the bottom of the screen nav bar appears for a couple of seconds and then disappears) but when keyboard is on. I also tried to open keyboard programmatically and then hide the nav bar after few seconds, without any success.

private fun toggleIME(){
    val imm             = applicationContext.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager?
    val view: EditText? = text

    if(view != null && imm != null) {
        isKOpen = !isKOpen
        if (isKOpen) {
            view.requestFocus()
            imm.showSoftInput(view, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED)

            handler.postDelayed(Runnable { // execute after XXXms
                updateUI()
                window.decorView.systemUiVisibility = appVisibility
            }, 5000)

        }
        else {
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
        }
    }
}

I hope to be missing something. I would need that for a custom keyboard I'm developing (where I have to implement the back button)