How to use SafeAreaView for Android notch devices?

I'm developing an app with React Native and I'm testing with my OnePlus 6 and it has a notch. The SafeAreaView is a solution for the iPhone X but for Android, it seems there is no solution.

How to solve this kind of issue?

Do something like

import { StyleSheet, Platform, StatusBar } from "react-native";

export default StyleSheet.create({
  AndroidSafeArea: {
    flex: 1,
    backgroundColor: "white",
    paddingTop: Platform.OS === "android" ? StatusBar.currentHeight : 0
  }
});

And then In your App.js

import SafeViewAndroid from "./components/SafeViewAndroid";

 <SafeAreaView style={SafeViewAndroid.AndroidSafeArea}>
          <Layout screenProps={{ navigation: this.props.navigation }} /> //OR whatever you want to render
        </SafeAreaView>

This should work good as get height will take care of the knotch in android device by calculating the statusBar height and it will arrange accordingly.

A work around I had to use recently:

GlobalStyles.js:

import { StyleSheet, Platform } from 'react-native';
export default StyleSheet.create({
    droidSafeArea: {
        flex: 1,
        backgroundColor: npLBlue,
        paddingTop: Platform.OS === 'android' ? 25 : 0
    },
});

It is applied like so:

App.js

import GlobalStyles from './GlobalStyles';
import { SafeAreaView } from "react-native";

render() {
    return (
      <SafeAreaView style={GlobalStyles.droidSafeArea}>
          //More controls and such
      </SafeAreaView>
    );
  }
}

You'll probably need to adjust it a bit to fit whatever screen you're working on, but this got my header just below the icon strip at the top.

You could also create helper component with this style applied right away like this

import React from 'react';
import { StyleSheet, Platform, StatusBar, SafeAreaView } from 'react-native';

export default props => (
  <SafeAreaView style={styles.AndroidSafeArea} {...props} >
    {props.children}
  </SafeAreaView>
);

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  AndroidSafeArea: {
    paddingTop: Platform.OS === 'android' ? StatusBar.currentHeight : 0
  }
});

Make note that I also deleted unnecessary styles which breaks natural behavior of SafeAreaView which in my case broke styling.

As for use you simply use it like normal SafeAreaView:

import React from 'react';
import SafeAreaView from "src/Components/SafeAreaView";

render() {
    return (
      <SafeAreaView>
          // Rest of your app
      </SafeAreaView>
    );
  }
}

Late 2020 answer: For anyone stumbling across this issue themselves, they have added support for this.

Follow this documentation page

if you're seeing this in 2020 and you also need the web support with the Android and iOS, type this in your terminal. expo install react-native-safe-area-context this will install the updated safe area context. Then import the following stuffs into your app.js

import { SafeAreaView, SafeAreaProvider} from "react-native-safe-area-context";

add <SafeAreaProvider> before all the tags in your main function in app.js, also remember to close it at the end. and finally, instead of view, add SafeAreaView. Read more at the official expo website : SafeAreaContext

for more consistency import:

import { Platform, StatusBar } from "react-native";

and then use it like so:

paddingTop: Platform.OS === 'android' ? StatusBar.currentHeight : 0

Although the docs says it is relevant only for iOS, when I used React's SafeAreaView it acted differently on different screens on Android.

I managed to fix the problem by implementing my version of SafeAreaView:

import React from "react";
import { Platform, View, StatusBar } from "react-native";
import { GeneralStyle } from "../styles";

export function SaferAreaView({ children }) {
  if (Platform.OS == "ios") {
    return <SaferAreaView style={{ flex: 1 }}>{children}</SaferAreaView>;
  }
  if (Platform.OS == "android") {
    return <View style={{flex: 1, paddingTop: StatusBar.currentHeight}}>{children}</View>;
  }
}

This was tested on an old device (with hardware navigation) and new notch devices (with software navigation) - different screen sizes.

1 - expo install expo-constants

2- and do like this for example

import React from "react";
import Constants from "expo-constants";
import { Text, StyleSheet, SafeAreaView, View } from "react-native";

export default function HeaderTabs({ style }) {
    return (
        <SafeAreaView style={[styles.screen, style]}>
            <View style={[styles.view, style]}>
                <Text>Hello this is status bar</Text>
            </View>
        </SafeAreaView>
    );
}


const styles = StyleSheet.create({
    screen: {
        paddingTop: Constants.statusBarHeight,
        flex: 1,
    },
    view: {
        flex: 1,
    },
});

In the SafeAreaView Docs was told:

> It is currently only applicable to iOS devices with iOS version 11 or later.

So now I definitely use it in my project but I use Platform to recognize device platform and for Android, I make a manual safe area for the status bar.

you can use react-native-device-info for device info and apply styling also with a notch

Instead of using Platform API, you can use expo constants.

npm i expo-constants

then import it in your component as

import Constants from "expo-constants"

and then in the styles you can use it like this

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
container: {
paddingTop: Constants.statusBarHeight
} });

To see all the properties of Constants console log it you will find some more useful things.

Well, I had the same problem. I solved this using this lib React Native Status Bar Height, and I recommend because it´s a piece of cake to use.
And if you are using style-components you can add the getStatusBarHeight() on your styles.js like I did on the example below:

import styled from 'styled-components/native';

import { getStatusBarHeight} from 'react-native-status-bar-height';

export const Background = styled.View`
 flex:1;
 background:#131313;
 margin-top: ${getStatusBarHeight()};

`

This is currently the best or easiest way to implement SafeAreaView on Android and ios for both vanilla RN and Expo.

import { SafeAreaView } from 'react-native-safe-area-context';

function SomeComponent() {
  return (
    <SafeAreaView>
      <View />
    </SafeAreaView>
  );
}

Expo solution(docs - android only):

import { setStatusBarTranslucent } from 'expo-status-bar';

Then in the component you can use useEffect hook:

  useEffect(() => {
    setStatusBarTranslucent(false)
  },[])

for iOS you can use the <SafeAreaView> component from react-native.

ENRICO SECCO was right (i cant comment due to my stackoverflow reputation lol)! any safeareaview thingy doesn't work for me as well, so i get around with import { getStatusBarHeight} from 'react-native-status-bar-height';

here how execute it, keep in mind that this is in my app.js, where i put all my stack.navigator + bottomtab.navigator

export default function App() {

//IGNORE ALL OF THIS, JUMP TO THE RETURN() FUNCTION!

  const [appIsReady, setAppIsReady] = useState(false);
  useEffect(() => {
    async function prepare() {
      try {
        await SplashScreen.preventAutoHideAsync();
        await Font.loadAsync(AntDesign.font);
        await Font.loadAsync({
          'Montserrat-Bold': require('./assets/fonts/Montserrat-Bold.ttf'),
          'Montserrat-Regular': require('./assets/fonts/Montserrat-Regular.ttf'),
          'Montserrat-Light': require('./assets/fonts/Montserrat-Light.ttf'),
        });
        await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 2000));
      } catch (e) {
        console.warn(e);
      } finally {
        // Tell the application to render
        setAppIsReady(true);
      }
    }

    prepare();
  }, []);

  const onLayoutRootView = useCallback(async () => {
    if (appIsReady) {
      await SplashScreen.hideAsync();
    }
  }, [appIsReady]);

  if (!appIsReady) {
    return null;
  }
  return (
    
  //HERE!
    <NavigationContainer> 
      <View  style = {{
        flex: 1, <- TO MAKE IT FULL SCREEN (PLEASE DELETE THIS)
        marginTop: getStatusBarHeight(), <- TO PUSH IT DOWN FROM OFF SCREEN, MINE RAN OFF TO THE TOP LMAO (PLEASE DELETE THIS)
      }} onLayout={onLayoutRootView}>
      <Tabs/>
      </View>
    </NavigationContainer>  
  );
}