Size of android notification bar and title bar?

Question

Is there a way to obtain the size of the notification bar and title bar in android? At the moment I obtain display width and height with:

Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
int width = display.getWidth();
int height = display.getHeight();

After that I want to subtract the sizes of the bars so that I can stretch a video without loosing ratio. Currently I hide the bars because I can't see a better way.

Answer 1

hi i think that isn´t necessary and that will be automatically if you use a VideoView

VideoView vv = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.MainVideo);                        
    MediaController mc=new MediaController(this);
    mc.setEnabled(true);
    mc.show(0);
    vv.setMediaController(mc); 
    vv.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(URLMedia));
    vv.requestFocus();
    vv.showContextMenu();
    vv.start();         

Answer 2

Maybe this is a helpful approach: Referring to the Icon Design Guidelines there are only three different heights for the status (notification) bar depending on the screen density:

• 24px for LDPI
• 32px for MDPI
• 48px for HDPI

So if you retrieve the screen density of the device using densityDpi of DisplayMetrics you know which value to subtract

so it could look something like that:

    DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
    getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
    int myHeight = 0;

    switch (metrics.densityDpi) {
        case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_HIGH:
            Log.i("display", "high");
            myHeight = display.getHeight() - 48;
            break;
        case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_LOW:
            Log.i("display", "low");
            myHeight = display.getHeight() - 32;
            break;
        case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_MEDIUM:
            Log.i("display", "medium/default");
            myHeight = display.getHeight() - 24;
            break;
        default:
            Log.i("display", "Unknown density");