For a project I worked on I had found a solution for this but it took a long time. Various threads on Stackoverflow and elsewhere helped me to come up with it. It was a work around on Android M but it worked perfectly. As someone asked for it so I thought I should post it here if it can benefit anyone.
Now that its been a while, I don't remember all the details, but the CustomViewGroup is the class which overrides the main ViewGroup, and detects that a user has swiped from top to show the status bar. But we didn't want to show it, so the user's intercept was detected and any further action was ignored, i.e. Android OS won't get a signal to open the hidden status bar.
And then the methods to show and hide the status bar are also included which you can copy/paste as is in your code where you want to show/hide the status bar.
/**
* This class creates the overlay on the status bar which stops it from expanding.
*/
public static class CustomViewGroup extends ViewGroup {
public CustomViewGroup(Context context) {
super(context);
}
@Override
protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int l, int t, int r, int b) {
}
@Override
public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
Log.v("customViewGroup", "********** Status bar swipe intercepted");
return true;
}
}
public static void allowStatusBarExpansion(Context context) {
CustomViewGroup view = new CustomViewGroup(context);
WindowManager manager = ((WindowManager) context.getApplicationContext()
.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE));
manager.removeView(view);
}
// Stop expansion of the status bar on swipe down.
public static void preventStatusBarExpansion(Context context) {
WindowManager manager = ((WindowManager) context.getApplicationContext()
.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE));
Activity activity = (Activity) context;
WindowManager.LayoutParams localLayoutParams = new WindowManager.LayoutParams();
localLayoutParams.type = WindowManager.LayoutParams.TYPE_SYSTEM_ERROR;
localLayoutParams.gravity = Gravity.TOP;
localLayoutParams.flags = WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE |
// this is to enable the notification to receive touch events
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_TOUCH_MODAL |
// Draws over status bar
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_IN_SCREEN;
localLayoutParams.width = WindowManager.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT;
//https://mcmap.net/q/36502/-how-to-get-screen-dimensions-as-pixels-in-android
int resId = activity.getResources().getIdentifier("status_bar_height", "dimen", "android");
int result = 0;
if (resId > 0) {
result = activity.getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(resId);
}
localLayoutParams.height = result;
localLayoutParams.format = PixelFormat.TRANSPARENT;
CustomViewGroup view = new CustomViewGroup(context);
manager.addView(view, localLayoutParams);
}
