Screen Size Honeycomb Menu android

Question

Hi I am trying yo get the screen size of screen minus the menu bar at the bottom.

I know I could just subtract a constant number according to the resolution of the device but it is a super ugly hack. I am sure google people are not dumb enough to forget to give the user a function to get the height of the bottom menu bar so I can subtract it from the full screen size

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DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);

what_i_need =metrics.heightPixels-buttomMenuHeight();

I need buttomMenuHeight();

i could not find it in the API. I don't really care about the backward comparability at this point

Thanks

Answer 1

Why not use the height of the activity's top-level View? e.g. if your activity contains a full-height LinearLayout, use its height, so you don't have to know the menu height, or noticiation bar height.

I think you're treading a dangerous road doing this kind of calculation, as you don't know what the future layouts for Android might be, or how they might differ on Google TV, or whatever.