[CB-9696] Add possibility to use non-immersive fullscreen in all Android versions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Master
• Component/s: cordova-android
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Timo Tiuraniemi
• Created: 24/Sep/15 08:37
• Updated: 18/Sep/16 08:31
• Resolved: 18/Sep/16 08:31

Description

Issue CB-8902 added a fullscreen immersive mode for Android version >=4.4 Kitkat.

As I commented on the issue, unfortunately this change broke my >=KitKat app. Immersive mode is significantly different from the old behavior:

1. Fullscreen in 4.1.1 is triggered later during boot than in 4.0.0, which cause my layout to slightly break as CSS is evaluated before fullscreen is ready.
2. When activating the keyboard, to navigation bar comes back. It didn't in 4.0.0. When I close the keyboard, the navigation bar doesn't get hidden but fullscreen is lost.

I propose that we introduce a new setting "fullscreen-immersive" to turn immersive off, but keep fullscreen on like this:

<preference name="fullscreen" value="true" />
<preference name="fullscreen-immersive" value="false" />

The new setting would default to true, making this change non-breaking for everyone.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: CB-11197 Android status bar appears when keyboard pops up.
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #218