Android 4.4 — Translucent status/navigation bars — fitsSystemWindows/clipToPadding don't work through fragment transactions

Question

When using the translucent status and navigation bars from the new Android 4.4 KitKat APIs, setting fitsSystemWindows=\"true\" and clipToPadding=\"false\"

Answer 1

I've been struggling quite a bit with this as well. I've seen all the responses here. Unfortunately none of them was fixing my problem 100% of the time. The SystemBarConfig is not working always since it fails to detect the bar on some devices. I gave a look at the source code and found where the insets are stored inside the window.

        Rect insets = new Rect();
        Window window = getActivity().getWindow();
        try {
            Class clazz = Class.forName("com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow");
            Field field = clazz.getDeclaredField("mDecor");
            field.setAccessible(true);
            Object decorView = field.get(window);
            Field insetsField = decorView.getClass().getDeclaredField("mFrameOffsets");
            insetsField.setAccessible(true);
            insets = (Rect) insetsField.get(decorView);
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

This is how to get them. Apparently in Android L there'll be a nice method to get those insets but in the meantime this might be a good solution.