Figure out whether status bar is at top or bottom?

Question

I am trying to figure out how I can tell the location of the status bar (top or bottom). I tried to inspect HierarchyViewer but didn't see the status bar view.

Really what I need to figure out is, given a context, a way to return a boolean (true if bar is on top, false if it isn't -- like it isn't on most tablets). I wrote a simple solution to try and figure out of the status bar is at the top or bottom, but it doesn't seem to be helping:

private boolean isStatusBarAtTop(){
    if (!(getContext() instanceof Activity)) {
        return !getContext().getResources().getBoolean(R.bool.isTablet);
    }

    Window window =  ((Activity) getContext()).getWindow();

    if(window == null) {
        return !getContext().getResources().getBoolean(R.bool.isTablet);
    }

    Activity activity = (Activity)getContext();
    Rect rect = new Rect();

    window.getDecorView().getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(rect);
    View ourView = window.findViewById(Window.ID_ANDROID_CONTENT);

    Log.d("Menu","Window Top: "+ ourView.getTop() + ", "+ourView.getBottom()+ ", "+ourView.getLeft()+", "+ourView.getRight());
    Log.d("Menu","Decor View Dimensions"+rect.flattenToString());

    return  ourView.getTop() != 0;
}

And for some reason I get the following as output (running on Nexus 7 Tablet):

D/Menu(1007): Window Top: 0, 0, 0, 0
D/Menu(1007): Decor View Dimensions0 0 800 1216

What am I thinking/doing wrong?

Answer 1

This is the only method that worked for me. The following method returns the height of the top statusbar. So if the according return value equals 0, there is no statusbar at the top of your window.

public static int getTopStatusBarHeight(Activity activity) {
    Rect rect = new Rect();

    activity.getWindow().getDecorView().getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(rect);

    return rect.top;
}