Incorrect Coordinates From getLocationOnScreen/getLocationInWindow

Question

A call to getLocationOnScreen() or getLocationInWindow() both give me a top/Y coordinate that is about ~30px (status/notifications bar's height) too far down. The left/X coordinate is dead on.

As I hinted above, I believe the difference is because of the status/notification bar... I could be wrong. I think I can solve this if I can determine the size of the notification bar but, I'm having trouble doing just that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I ended up solving this issue by determining the height of the status/notification bar like so:

View globalView = ...; // the main view of my activity/application  DisplayMetrics dm = new DisplayMetrics(); this.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(dm); int topOffset = dm.heightPixels - globalView.getMeasuredHeight();  View tempView = ...; // the view you'd like to locate int[] loc = new int[2];  tempView.getLocationOnScreen(loc);  final int y = loc[1] - topOffset;