Get the screen height in Android

Question

How can I get the available height of the screen in Android? I need to the height minus the status bar / menu bar or any other decorations that might be on screen and I need it

Answer 1

Working solution:

Create two dummy views :

Now, you should call getLocationOnScreen(int []) on these two views to receive their locations. This function returns an array of 2 integers. The first being x and the second y. We require only y. Also note that correct values are returned only AFTER all the views are created and the onCreate method is exited.

I tested this code on a regular fragment called from a viewpager.

The code was in the onCreateView method of my fragment. I still had to use a postDelayed to get the correct values.

final View top = (View) view.findViewById(R.id.top);
    final View bottom = (View) view.findViewById(R.id.bottom);
    new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {

            int topLoc[] = new int[2];
            top.getLocationOnScreen(topLoc);
            int BottomLoc[] = new int[2];
            bottom.getLocationOnScreen(BottomLoc);
            Log.d(Constants.debug, "topY: "+ topLoc[1]+" BottomY:" + BottomLoc[1]);
        }
    },4000);

I have a Nexus 4.

In regular mode (status bar and the soft buttons shown) :

07-05 02:28:23.367      565-565/com.torcellite.xx D/xx: topY: 50 BottomY:1182

In full screen mode (no status bar or soft buttons shown) :

07-05 02:29:17.360      707-707/com.torcellite.xx D/xx: topY: 0 BottomY:1280

All you have to do now is subtract.