After a frustrating search today, I learned that o...

# compose-ios

[Mofe Ejegi]

After a frustrating search today, I learned that on the iPad, when in landscape mode, there's no safe area allocated for the status bar.
This is unlike Android's behaviour which allocates a Window inset for the status bar in both portrait and landscape.

So in Compose Multiplatform, when I call statusBarsPadding(), no padding is applied when the app is in landscape on the iPad.
Has anyone else encountered this? Please what did you try as a workaround?

PS: I'm already using ComposeView().ignoresSafeArea(.all) in the SwiftUI part.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/layout#iOS-iPadOS-safe-areas

[Andrei Salavei]

Oh, well. that's sad. I will take a look on it.

[Mofe Ejegi]

Thank you. I dug deeper into the code to see why this was happening and saw this:

actual val WindowInsets.Companion.statusBars: WindowInsets
    @Composable
    @OptIn(InternalComposeApi::class)
    get() = when (LocalInterfaceOrientation.current) {
        InterfaceOrientation.Portrait -> iosSafeArea.only(WindowInsetsSides.Top)
        else -> ZeroInsets
    }

I guess it was intentional? 🤷‍♂️

In the meantime, I'll be using this when I want to explicitly use statusBarsPadding() on Expanded iOS screens

.windowInsetsPadding(WindowInsets.systemBars.only(WindowInsetsSides.Top))

[Mofe Ejegi]

PS: The issue also happens when my iPad is portrait upside down as well. Which makes sense when you look at the source code.

[Andrei Salavei]

Thank you for clarification. If on iPad does not contain top safe area, it's expected that status bar padding will be 0. We need to check possible solutions, but it will take some time.

[Mofe Ejegi]

Thanks for fixing this!