Thanks but it doesn't quite give me what I need. When I tried
View.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(Rect)  the a rect has the height and
width of the entire screen not the screen minus the notification bar
or system bar....


On Aug 18, 7:17 pm, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can use View.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(Rect)
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> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:12 PM, neuromit <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm interested in getting the usable dimensions of the screen as
> > opposed to the dimensions of the entire screen as part of the screen
> > is occupied by the notification bar and a system bar in Honeycomb. The
> > numbers reported by DisplayMetrics only give you the dimensions of the
> > whole screen. I've been looking for a way to figure our the dimensions
> > of the  usable part of the screen.
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> > I know I can create a view that fills the screen and then grab the
> > size of the view after the view has been drawn but this requires the
> > view to be drawn once before I can query its size. It also seems very
> > "hackish".
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> > Is there a proper way to do this?
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