[AppBar] AppBar in activity is hiding text on Android 15 (Beta 1) about material-components-android

[imhappi]

Hi @patrickfrei !

From the changes listed here it looks like what's happening is that the status bar space is now being included as a part of layout space and that bumped your layout up by the height of the status bar

As per the developer docs, the status bar is always transparent and now needs the background to be drawn behind it: "Draw proper background behind WindowInsets.Type#statusBars()} instead."

It looks like you're using the action bar that comes with one of the default action bar themes. I'm not sure why the default action bar is respecting the status bar inset with the edge to edge enforcement, maybe that is a change that's yet to be made or was a conscious decision in order. In any case, it looks like the recommendation for adding an app bar is to add a toolbar to the layout with a theme without an action bar, which I believe may solve both your issues (but will move the toolbar up): https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/components/appbar/setting-up#add-toolbar

If you're using Material, you can replace it with a toolbar inside an AppBarLayout, which will take care of the insets for you: https://github.com/material-components/material-components-android/blob/master/docs/components/TopAppBar.md