How to prevent layout from overlapping with iOS status bar

Question

I am working on tutorial for React Native navigation. I found out that all layout starts loading from top of screen instead of below of the status bar. This causes most layo

Answer 1

I tried a more simple way for this.

We can get the height of Status Bar on android and use SafeAreaView along with it to make the code work on both platforms.

import { SafeAreaView, StatusBar, Platform } from 'react-native';

If we log out Platform.OS and StatusBar.currentHeight we get the logs,

console.log('Height on: ', Platform.OS, StatusBar.currentHeight);

Height on: android 24 and Height on: android 24

We can now optionally add margin/padding to our container view using

paddingTop: Platform.OS === "android" ? StatusBar.currentHeight : 0

The final code in App.js is below:

export default class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      
        
          Hello World
        
      
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    backgroundColor: "#fff",
    paddingTop: Platform.OS === "android" ? StatusBar.currentHeight : 0
  }
});