windowInsetsController vs windowInsetsControllerCompat? I can only access the former

Question

So i was watching this tutorial by google today here https://youtu.be/jal0l48OTxk and i figured that doing

        myCanvasView.systemUiVisibility = SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN

is now deprecated and i need to use windowInsetsController instead. First off, I am new to android and i don't know how to use this new thing which clearly doesn't work in the exact same way as the old API so it's not a direct replacement but rather more nuanced one. Seondly, I noticed that windowInsetsController is not backwards compatible and there is something like windowInsetsControllerCompat that exists out there. However, I am not able to access it like this:

        myCanvasView.windowInsetsControllerCompat

but

        myCanvasView.windowInsetsController

works fine. Can someone here help me out?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 08 '21 at 12:17

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WindowCompat.setDecorFitsSystemWindows(window, false)

answered Sep 08 '21 at 12:17

Tempest

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Please provide additional details in your answer. As it's currently written, it's hard to understand your solution. – Community Sep 08 '21 at 12:26
in androidx.core:core-ktx:1.6.0 you can use this – Tempest Sep 09 '21 at 01:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 23 '22 at 13:57

You can use

WindowCompat.getInsetsController(getWindow(), myCanvasView);

instead of:

myCanvasView.windowInsetsController

See https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/core/view/WindowCompat#WindowCompat(), and https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/layout/immersive

windowInsetsController vs windowInsetsControllerCompat? I can only access the former

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