Keep system status bar out of the Action Bar area #637
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Can we do this without affecting the web layout? Although these changes are targetting an apps branch for now, we paln to merge them back once more stable.
Capacitor code has API to platform detect, or we might be able to write CSS that just works on all platforms.
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It was my understanding that this does work on all platforms already, but happy to switch it out if not. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Values/env#browser_compatibility (safe-area-inset-top specifically)
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Google is transitioning all apps to work edge-to-edge. As CreateAI has a fixed ActionBar, it makes sense for this bar to be the component that extends to the top of the screen.
As a minor design decision: if you extend the ActionBar to the top of the screen, with the buttons appearing in the safe area beneath the status bar, the ActionBar buttons look misaligned on the vertical axis. As an initial approach I have darkened the colour beneath the status bar a little to provide contrast. MakeCode looks fine with solid blue, so I have kept the default colour.
Android Chromium webviews less than version 140 do not correctly support edge-to-edge. In versions of the WebView that do not have edge-to-edge capability, this functionality is inert and the safe-area plugin transitions us safely back to a non-edge-to-edge layout with a solid status bar. The introduction to the readme for safe-area contains additional context about why this is not always trivial on Android.
On android 35 emulator, the status bar seems inordinately big compared to android 36, but still usable.
iOS is always edge to edge.
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Android 36, older webview
Android 36, newer webview
Android 35, older webview
Android 35, newer webview
iOS 16