Is there any way to get the `size` of the screen a...

# compose

[Adib Faramarzi]

Is there any way to get the size of the screen as a value?
I thought it would be available in LocalDensity.current but it isn't.

[Adib Faramarzi]

Okay, found it. For anyone wondering:

LocalConfiguration.current.screenHeightDp

[Colton Idle]

From what I've read in this slack before... depending on what you're doing you may want to get the height of the parent container and not the screen height. For example if you're in split screen mode... you probably want to get the value of the parent container. I suspect a lot of times parentContainerHeight == screenHeight, but split screen is a good example of when that's not true.

[Adib Faramarzi]

That is a good point. Are there any references to that height?

[Ashu]

Adib you can probably use Modifier.onGloballyPositioned.

[Adib Faramarzi]

That is very different from my scenario. I don't want the height of the current composable.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

BoxWithConstraints is the usual way to do what Colton is talking about. The onGloballyPositioned modifier is the wrong thing for that in most cases, can cause a frame delay.

[Adib Faramarzi]

Both solutions are not what Colton was talking about. Both these solutions give the size of the Latout not the window. You need to get the window information anywhere you want.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Colton was talking about getting the size of the container, instead of the window. BoxWithConstraints is usually the simplest way to do that. It sounds like that’s not what you need but wanted to clarify.