kotlin - android.view.View.systemUiVisibility deprecated. What is the replacement?

Question

I have updated the project target API version to 30, and now I see that the systemUiVisibility property is deprecated.

The following kotlin code is the one I'm using which is actually equivalent to setSystemUiVisibility method in Java.

playerView.systemUiVisibility = (View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LOW_PROFILE
            or View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN
            or View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE
            or View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_IMMERSIVE_STICKY
            or View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_HIDE_NAVIGATION
            or View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION)

Please let me know if you have got any stable replacement for this deprecated code. The google's recommendation is to use WindowInsetsController, but I don't how to do that.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62577645/android-view-view-systemuivisibility-deprecated-what-is-the-replacement

Answer 1

I hope It helps you.

Previously, when implementing edge-to-edge navigation or immersive mode, one of the first steps to take was to use the systemUiVisibility flags in order to request the app to be laid out fullscreen, This new Android release deprecates this field and in order to layout the app fullscreen you have to use a new method on the Window class: setDecorFitsSystemWindows passing false as an argument like below.

window.setDecorFitsSystemWindows(false)

WindowInsetsController class which allows you to do things that previously were controlled via systemUiVisibility flags, like hiding or showing the status bar or navigation bar(hide and show methods, respectively)

For example, you can easily show and hide the keyboard as shown below:

// You have to wait for the view to be attached to the
// window (otherwise, windowInsetController will be null)
view.doOnLayout {
    view.windowInsetsController?.show(WindowInsets.Type.ime())
    // You can also access it from Window
    window.insetsController?.show(WindowInsets.Type.ime())
}