How to not cover up the Android/iOS top status bar (eg. with time, network/wifi icons) in mobile Unity app?

I wrote this for a project a few years ago. It should work fine, but I no longer maintain it. It shows the status bar in the color of your choice.

Usage:

#if UNITY_ANDROID && !UNITY_EDITOR Screen.fullScreen = false; //Should be unnecessary unless you changed it AndroidUtility.ShowStatusBar(Color.black); #endif 

Code:

#if UNITY_ANDROID && !UNITY_EDITOR using System; using UnityEngine; namespace Evorlor.Common { public static class AndroidUtility { private const int MinStatusBarColorApi = 21; private const int SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN = 0x00000400; private static AndroidJavaObject activity; /// <summary> /// Shows the Android Status bar /// </summary> /// <param name="color">Color of status bar to be used</param> public static void ShowStatusBar(Color color) { int androidColor = ConvertColorToAndroidColor(color); RunOnUiThread(() => { using (var window = Window) { window.Call("clearFlags", SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN); if (GetApi() >= MinStatusBarColorApi) { window.Call("setStatusBarColor", androidColor); } else { Debug.LogWarning("Changing the status bar color is not supported on Android API lower than Lollipop."); } } }); } private static void RunOnUiThread(Action action) { Activity.Call("runOnUiThread", new AndroidJavaRunnable(action)); } private static AndroidJavaObject Activity { get { if (activity == null) { var unityPlayer = new AndroidJavaClass("com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayer"); activity = unityPlayer.GetStatic<AndroidJavaObject>("currentActivity"); } return activity; } } private static AndroidJavaObject Window { get { return Activity.Call<AndroidJavaObject>("getWindow"); } } private static int GetApi() { using (var version = new AndroidJavaClass("android.os.Build$VERSION")) { return version.GetStatic<int>("SDK_INT"); } } private static int ConvertColorToAndroidColor(Color color) { Color32 color32 = color; int alpha = color32.a; int red = color32.r; int green = color32.g; int blue = color32.b; using (var colorClass = new AndroidJavaClass("android.graphics.Color")) { int androidColor = colorClass.CallStatic<int>("argb", alpha, red, green, blue); return androidColor; } } } } #endif 

You are supposed to integrate Over17's UnityShowAndroidStatusBar code after exporting a Unity game project to Android Studio rather than just building it. This way, you can add new features Unity doesn't provide out of the box. The Android export process is straightforward. You select Gradle as Build System, enable the Export Project checkbox, and click the Export button.

In this forum thread, Unity Technologies' user Yury-Habets mentions the same Over17's Java class to toggle status bar visibility, but the related repo hasn't been updated since 2018 and may be out of date as of today.

No need to export the project at all

On the other hand, user OJ3D refers to a script that runs right inside Unity without any additional effort. It is Zeh Fernando's ApplicationChrome.cs from the Unity Tidbits repository, whose author also describes in their blog.

The ApplicationChrome.cs script contains some Java code that Unity uses to talk to the low-level Android system APIs. It includes Android-only functions you can call from other scripts in your game to configure the appearance of your application.

Although the forum message dates back to 2016 (when Unity 5.2.3 was around) and the blog post dates back to 2015, the latest repo commit occurred in November 2019. This means the source is still being maintained. I tested the .apk demo from the blog post on an Android 9 (Pie) mobile device, and it still works.

Since Unity doesn't provide the status bar hide feature anymore, this seems a nice, working solution that requires neither writing additional code nor using external building tools.

Display the Status Bar only

Include the ApplicationChrome.cs script in your project. Its methods will be called once by a GameObject in your scene to set up the display mode:

void Start() { ApplicationChrome.statusBarState = ApplicationChrome.States.Visible; ApplicationChrome.navigationBarState = ApplicationChrome.States.Hidden; } 

If you can still view the navigation bar, this is due to the script forcing non-fullscreen mode (at line 149). You can simply get away with it by adding a new line:

void Start() { ApplicationChrome.statusBarState = ApplicationChrome.States.Visible; ApplicationChrome.navigationBarState = ApplicationChrome.States.Hidden; Screen.fullScreen = true; }