Reliably get height of status bar to solve KitKat translucent navigation issue

Question

I am experimenting with the new Android 4.4 translucent navigation bars and would like to set the navigation bar as translucent using the FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_NAVIGATION

Answer 1

Since api 21 there is official method for retrieving insets for status bar and navigation bar height when is translucent

ViewCompat.setOnApplyWindowInsetsListener(view, new OnApplyWindowInsetsListener() {
        @Override
        public WindowInsetsCompat onApplyWindowInsets(View v, WindowInsetsCompat insets) {
            final int statusBar = insets.getSystemWindowInsetTop();
            final int navigationBar = insets.getSystemWindowInsetBottom();
            return insets;
        }
    });