SystemUiHelper

Helper for dealing with Android System UI visibility. Authored by Roman Nurik and Chris Banes.

Original Blog post: SystemUiHelper · Chris Banes

Original Gist: chrisbanes/SystemUiHelper

Why SystemUiHelper?

Android has introduced a lot of different API for controlling system UI visibility throughout its evolution. In order to simplify such complexity, SystemUiHelper categorized the possible behavior into LEVEL_LOW_PROFILE, LEVEL_HIDE_STATUS_BAR, LEVEL_LEAN_BACK and LEVEL_IMMERSIVE. Each one is pretty self explanatory.

Why this library?

Although there have been some other projects available, I created this library because this way I can always try to track the latest upstream changes. Third-party fixes are also welcomed to be incorporated.

This library has already included a fix for delayed system UI visibility change from myself.

What’s more, a sample application is given on how to use the SystemUiHelper with Toolbar from appcompat-v7.

Sample APK

Integration

Gradle:

compile 'me.zhanghai.android.systemuihelper:library:1.0.0'

Usage

In Activity.onCreate():

mSystemUiHelper = new SystemUiHelper(this, SystemUiHelper.LEVEL_IMMERSIVE,
        SystemUiHelper.FLAG_IMMERSIVE_STICKY,
        new SystemUiHelper.OnVisibilityChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void onVisibilityChange(boolean visible) {
                ...
            }
        });
// This will set up window flags.
mSystemUiHelper.show();

You can refer to the sample app’s MainActivity for detail.

License

Copyright 2015 Zhang Hai
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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