Android View doesnt go to bottom screen edge
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Description
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Our team realised that our apps we made, on certain Android device, the view doesnt go to the bottom edge of the screens. there's always a spacing. At first we thought it was React navigation that would create that spacings but we recently started a new project and we come to realise that it is native from React native. From the default source files of React native (the template we get from npx create-react-app) we have seen that the template use the SafeArea component, so we replaced it with a View component and tried with and without flex: 1 to his styles property but nothing changes, the spacings is still there. Is there a way of getting rid of it ?
PREVIEW OF CODE
PREVIEW ANDROID DEVICE (the spacings would be the black bar under the white scrollview)
Steps to reproduce
- npx create-react-app
- npm run android (i'm using PIXEL 6)
React Native Version
0.72.12
Affected Platforms
Runtime - Android
Output of npx react-native info
System:
OS: macOS 14.1.2
CPU: (12) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 2.76 GB / 32.00 GB
Shell:
version: "5.9"
path: /bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node:
version: 18.19.0
path: /usr/local/opt/node@18/bin/node
Yarn: Not Found
npm:
version: 10.2.3
path: /usr/local/opt/node@18/bin/npm
Watchman:
version: 2023.12.04.00
path: /usr/local/bin/watchman
Managers:
CocoaPods:
version: 1.14.3
path: /Users/michaellabelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.4/bin/pod
SDKs:
iOS SDK:
Platforms:
- DriverKit 23.0
- iOS 17.0
- macOS 14.0
- tvOS 17.0
- watchOS 10.0
Android SDK: Not Found
IDEs:
Android Studio: 2022.3 AI-223.8836.35.2231.10671973
Xcode:
version: 15.0.1/15A507
path: /usr/bin/xcodebuild
Languages:
Java:
version: 11.0.21
path: /usr/bin/javac
Ruby:
version: 2.7.4
path: /Users/michaellabelle/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.4/bin/ruby
npmPackages:
"@react-native-community/cli": Not Found
react:
installed: 18.2.0
wanted: 18.2.0
react-native:
installed: 0.72.12
wanted: 0.72.12
react-native-macos: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
"*react-native*": Not Found
Android:
hermesEnabled: true
newArchEnabled: false
iOS:
hermesEnabled: true
newArchEnabled: false
Stacktrace or Logs
No crash or failure
Reproducer
https://snack.expo.dev/@mlabelle/rn---spacing-from-bottom-edge?platform=android
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Research direction
Start with the Snack reproducer and a fresh project from npx create-react-app, using React Native 0.72.12 on the reported Pixel 6 setup. Compare the SafeArea component with a View, with and without flex: 1, and determine the expected bottom-edge behavior and whether the spacing is reproducible without navigation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react-native
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100