The Notch

[J. Landman Gay]

While Richard's recommendation is appealing, I can't really ask my 
customers to follow through. ;) I guess what I need to know is:

What does the screenrect return on a notched phone?
How about the rect of the card? Is it different than the screenrect?

Google says the default display, with no flags set, places the app 
window fully under the notch and blacks out the areas at the sides. How 
does this affect the card size? Does it get shorter? Or crop? Or scale 
to the smaller area as though the phone had a different aspect ratio, 
resulting in pillarboxing?

Android has flags that allow the app to use the areas around the notch, 
but LC doesn't tell us where those are, or even that a notch exists. I'm 
not sure what iOS does. I'll have to fire up simulators and emulators I 
suppose, but I'm hoping to save a lot of testing time if someone has 
already gone through this.

On 1/29/19 4:40 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote:
> I have not yet addressed the Android notch. My LG v20 has an offset to the
> right notch but it's reserved for the OS. For the iPhone I have a function
> GetCardRect(). It returns a standard issue 4 item rect. I don't use things
> like the "the top of this card...". As well as taking in account for the
> keyboard it accounts for the iPhone notches. I select "show the status bar"
> in the iOS standalone settings and GetCardRect() takes care of the rest. You
> can even test in the IDE. I detect if the aspect ratio is an iPhone with a
> notch and you can see what will happen on the X. This was an easy
> implementation for me because I rolled my own device independence control
> placement library long ago using GetCardRect() to deal with the keyboard.
> This was long before the iPhoneX.  When the X appeared on the scene I just
> added a dozen or so lines of code in GetCardRect() to deal with it. iOS was
> very predictable because of Apples strict human interface guidelines. It's
> out in the field and working nicely. But the Android is another matter.
> There are so many variants to deal with. I just don't know how we can deal
> with the Android notch without an LC implementation of an OS API hook or a
> new Android manifest "Notch" key to keep the app out of the notch(or both).
> 
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
> Of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 4:30 PM
> To: LiveCode Mailing List
> Cc: J. Landman Gay
> Subject: The Notch
> 
> I don't have an Android or iPhone with a notch. How do we deal with
> positioning for those? Anything I need to know?
> 


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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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