Screen Size Honeycomb Menu android

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Hi I am trying yo get the screen size of screen minus the menu bar at the bottom.

I know I could just subtract a constant number according to the resolution of the device but it is a super ugly hack. I am sure google people are not dumb enough to forget to give the user a function to get the height of the bottom menu bar so I can subtract it from the full screen size

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DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);

what_i_need =metrics.heightPixels-buttomMenuHeight();

I need buttomMenuHeight();

i could not find it in the API. I don't really care about the backward comparability at this point

Thanks

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 02 '11 at 21:52

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Why not use the height of the activity's top-level View? e.g. if your activity contains a full-height LinearLayout, use its height, so you don't have to know the menu height, or noticiation bar height.

I think you're treading a dangerous road doing this kind of calculation, as you don't know what the future layouts for Android might be, or how they might differ on Google TV, or whatever.

answered Mar 02 '11 at 21:52

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I am drawing image in native code and I need to pass the size of the screen to C. I tried to get the Height by getHeight() of the view but that returns 0 always even after setContentView is called. – user498584 Mar 02 '11 at 22:30

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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Try calling getHeight() after onLayout. The view is not sized on inflate.

EDIT: Or since Activity does not have onLayout you might wait for onSizeChanged.

(Reference How to know when activity is laid out?)

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 02 '11 at 22:40

I am drawing image in native code and I need to pass the size of the screen to C.

I tried to get the Height by getHeight() of the view but that returns 0 always even after setContentView is called.

RelativeLayout masterLayout = new RelativeLayout(this);
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);
masterLayout.setLayoutParams(params);
setContentView(masterLayout);

when I try masterLayout.getHeight(), it returns 0. I expected to get the full screen height as I said fill_parent.

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