Finamp Android does not draw the app Edge to Edge

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Android can let app draw behind the navigation pill. The small indicator at the bottom of the screen if you use gesture based navigation.

Most apps use this space either as additional screen space, drawing their app contents behind it as well, causing a scrolling list for instance to draw from the edge of your screen. Some also just put a placeholder there in a fitting color. Finamp currently does neither. Leaving the space black. Also there's rumors that the EdgeToEdge mode will be forced by Android in Android 15.

Note the black bar at the bottom: Album view	Player screen	Song detail bottom sheet

Possible solutions

In Flutter this can be changed with SystemChrome similar to how Findroid already fixes the status bar on iOS by making the space transparent. This causes the SafeArea from Scaffold to be visible, creating a more coherent(imo) appearance.

await SystemChrome.setEnabledSystemUIMode(SystemUiMode.edgeToEdge);
SystemChrome.setSystemUIOverlayStyle(const SystemUiOverlayStyle(systemNavigationBarColor: Colors.transparent));

I am not entirely sure if these system chrome changes stick around during the entire app lifetime. So there might be a need for supplying a WidgetsBindingObserver. I use these solutions in conjunction in my private projects without issues(though I only have an Android phone):

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter/services.dart';

/// Class to set the system UI overlay style to edge to edge.
class UIOverlaySetterObserver extends WidgetsBindingObserver {
  @override
  void didChangeAppLifecycleState(AppLifecycleState state) async {
    switch (state) {
      case AppLifecycleState.resumed:
        SystemChrome.setSystemUIOverlayStyle(
          const SystemUiOverlayStyle(
            systemNavigationBarColor: Colors.transparent,
          ),
        );
        await SystemChrome.setEnabledSystemUIMode(SystemUiMode.edgeToEdge);
        break;
      default:
        break;
    }
  }
}

which would be used in main.dart

final binding = WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
binding.addObserver(UIOverlaySetterObserver());

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I would like to make PR but right now my Flutter installation is FUBAR and my internet too slow to reinstall the entire toolchain. So that would have to wait a bit

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flutter 3.24.4 magically fixed my gradle woes and I finally got around to trying this out.

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This is what findroid looks like with the app drawing in edge to edge

Album view	Player screen	Song detail bottom sheet