Android 4.4 — Translucent status/navigation bars — fitsSystemWindows/clipToPadding don't work through fragment transactions

Question

When using the translucent status and navigation bars from the new Android 4.4 KitKat APIs, setting fitsSystemWindows=\"true\" and clipToPadding=\"false\"

Answer 1

Combined with @BladeCoder answer i've created FittedFrameLayout class which does two things:

• it doesn't add padding for itself

• it scan through all views inside its container and add padding for them, but stops on the lowest layer (if fitssystemwindows flag is found it won't scan child deeper, but still on same depth or below).

  public class FittedFrameLayout extends FrameLayout {
      private Rect insets = new Rect();
  
      public FittedFrameLayout(Context context) {
          super(context);
      }
  
      public FittedFrameLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
          super(context, attrs);
      }
  
      public FittedFrameLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
          super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
      }
  
      @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
      public FittedFrameLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes) {
          super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr, defStyleRes);
      }
  
      protected void setChildPadding(View view, Rect insets){
          if(!(view instanceof ViewGroup))
              return;
  
          ViewGroup parent = (ViewGroup) view;
          if (parent instanceof FittedFrameLayout)
              ((FittedFrameLayout)parent).fitSystemWindows(insets);
          else{
              if( ViewCompat.getFitsSystemWindows(parent))
                  parent.setPadding(insets.left,insets.top,insets.right,insets.bottom);
              else{
                  for (int i = 0, z = parent.getChildCount(); i < z; i++)
                      setChildPadding(parent.getChildAt(i), insets);
              }
          }
      }
  
      @Override
      protected boolean fitSystemWindows(Rect insets) {
          this.insets = insets;
          for (int i = 0, z = getChildCount(); i < z; i++)
              setChildPadding(getChildAt(i), insets);
  
          return true;
      }
  
      @Override
      public void addView(View child, int index, ViewGroup.LayoutParams params) {
          super.addView(child, index, params);
          setChildPadding(child, insets);
      }
  }