Detect Status Bar Visibility / TYPE_SYSTEM_OVERLAY not resizing automatically

Hopefully i understand what you are after here but, in my app (TEAM BatteryBar) i had a similar problem. ( no root minimal permissions )

I couldn’t detect a full screen on anything below API11 (and intermittent on some (Samsung mostly) devices above API11). So i made a custom listener for it by adding a second layout to the WindowManager with a different layout param then overrode the onLayout to check if the statusBar is still there or not by checking the window size. from there you can do what ever you need to to your main view.

I was going to tidy it up but it worked so i didn’t 😛 code is over a year old and is from when i first started coding for android so yeah. Food for thought tho. hope it helps.

here is the code in a repo at my github with a copy paste straight out of my app on how i am using it. small snippet here

wm.addView(sizeLayout, params);// add your view

// then add the next one
Screendetect mDetector;
mDetector = new Screendetect(this);
mDetector.setOnFullScreenListener(new OnFullScreenListener() {
            @Override
            public void fsChanged(boolean FS_Bool) {
                // TODO rethink this to be better.... bit hacky...
                if (FS_Bool) {
                    Log.d("battbardetect", "Statusbar hidden");
                    FS_vissible(); // do what ever you need to
                } else if (!FS_Bool) {
                    Log.d("battbardetect", "Statusbar Vissible"); 
                    FS_hidden(); // do what ever you need to
                }
            }
        });
wm.addView(mDetector, params);