adding androidNavBar height

README.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ A repo for all those functions you copy and paste between projects.
 
 **`pluckChildViewsFromLayout`** accepts any layout and removes all it's child views and returns them in an array.
 
-**`getScreenHeight`**  returns an object of type IScreenHeight with the properties `portrait` and `landscape` dimensions.
+**`getScreenHeight`**  returns an object of type `IScreenHeight` with the properties `portrait` and `landscape` dimensions. `IScreenHeight` also has the properties `androidStatusBar` and `androidNavBar` which are  android specific properties that will return the Nav bar and Status bar heights as well. if accessed on iOS they will have a value of 0. These can come in handy since the `portrait` and `landscape` dimensions do not take these into account.
 
 * ActionBar Utilities
 

nativescript-swiss-army-knife.ts

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ export interface IScreenHeight {
 	portrait: number;
 	landscape: number;
 	androidStatusBar: number;
+	androidNavBar: number;
 }
 
 export class SwissArmyKnife {
@@ -79,10 +80,12 @@ export class SwissArmyKnife {
 		let height1 = Platform.screen.mainScreen.heightDIPs;
 		let height2 = Platform.screen.mainScreen.widthDIPs;
 		let statusbar = this.getStatusBarHeight();
+		let navbar = this.getNavBarHeight();
 		return {
 			portrait: height1,
 			landscape: height2,
 			androidStatusBar: statusbar,
+			androidNavBar: navbar,
 		};
 	}
 
@@ -99,6 +102,20 @@ export class SwissArmyKnife {
 		}
 	}
 
+	private static getNavBarHeight(): number {
+		if (app.android) {
+			let result = 0;
+			let resourceId = app.android.currentContext.getResources().getIdentifier('navigation_bar_height', 'dimen', 'android');
+			if (resourceId > 0) {
+				result = app.android.currentContext.getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(resourceId);
+			}
+			return result;
+		} else {
+			return 0;
+		}
+	}
+
+
 	/** ActionBar Utilities */
 	/**
 	 * Programmatically set title
@@ -136,6 +153,8 @@ export class SwissArmyKnife {
 			let window = app.android.startActivity.getWindow();
 			// check for status bar
 			window.addFlags(LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS);
+			window.addFlags(LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS);
+			window.setStatusBarColor(new Color('pink'));
         }
     }
 

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "nativescript-swiss-army-knife",
-	"version": "1.0.0",
+	"version": "1.0.1",
 	"description": "Nativescript Swiss Army Knife",
 	"main": "nativescript-swiss-army-knife.js",
 	"nativescript": {