fitsSystemWindows and extra padding on kitkat

Question

I have a ListView in an activity with an actionbar like this:

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    tools:context=".LauncherActivity"

    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >
        <ListView
            android:id="@+id/lvcalendar"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:clipToPadding="false"
            android:fitsSystemWindows="true"


            android:dividerHeight="10dp"
            android:paddingTop="10dp"
            android:paddingBottom="10dp"
            android:divider="#00ffffff"

            android:scrollbarThumbVertical="@drawable/scrollbarstyle"
            android:layout_gravity="top"
            android:listSelector="@android:color/transparent"
            />
</LinearLayout>

The activity theme have:

<item name="android:windowTranslucentStatus">true</item>
<item name="android:windowTranslucentNavigation">true</item>

Under Kitkat devices, the behaviour is what I want: the items have 10dp padding at the bottom and at the top. On kitkat devices the paddingTop and paddingBottom seem to have no efect as the ListView's item do not have the 10dp padding at the top and bottom.

I think the problem is somewhere in android:fitsSystemWindows as this attribute seem to set the necessary padding to the view because of translucent decor and make the android:padding* attributes being ignored.

My question: is there anyway so I can have the android:fitsSystemWindows set to true and still add extra padding on the view?

Oppugnant

please check the answer as Accepted ! , what's Wrong ? – Elin

The behaviour I want is not what @Spirit said. – Oppugnant

did you find solution already? got the same problem – Instructor

No. I actually forgot this question here. I'm the owner of this question and I'm not allowed to down vote the solutions that I tested that don't work? This stackoverflow is just useless like that. Anyway, other people just up voted in something that is not the solution. Still, useless place to share questions and answers. – Oppugnant

Answer 1

You should add this attribute to parent view :

<LinearLayout
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
tools:context=".LauncherActivity"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

Langevin

If add this to the parent activity, the listview won't fill the navigation bar. I still want to have the listview behind the translucent navigation bar but the I want to have the extra padding plus the fitsSystemWindows' padding. It may be not possible, I don't know. If you need more info or screenshoots just say. Thanks – Oppugnant

Answer 2

You can create your own class that extends ListView and override fitSystemWindows() in that class, in order to add the insets to the existing padding (the default implementation replaces any padding with the insets). Then you don't need to specify the android:fitsSystemWindows attribute in the layout XML because your new implementation will always be called.

Guinn

It seems that's what I need. I'll try as soon as possible and I'll tell here the results and solution. Thanks! – Oppugnant

Answer 3

Answer is no. If you set android:fitsSystemWindows as true, it overwrites padding of that view.

You can achieve the behavior you want by having two nested views, where the parent view has android:fitsSystemWindows as true and other contains the padding.

Houdini

Answer 4

Move your android:fitsSystemWindows="true" to your parent ListView

Ramrod

Answer 5

When you use:

fitsSystemWindows=true

To a layout, padding will be reset to insets. You can use the FitsSystemWindowsFrameLayout to solve this default behavior.

Pinhole

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