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Bug 4602 - Interface to get safeArea for notched devices (display cutouts) such as iPhone XR?
Summary: Interface to get safeArea for notched devices (display cutouts) such as iPhon...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: SDL
Classification: Unclassified
Component: video (show other bugs)
Version: HG 2.1
Hardware: iPhone/iPod touch Windows 10
: P2 enhancement
Assignee: Sam Lantinga
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
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Reported: 2019-04-19 17:52 UTC by Dan Ginsburg
Modified: 2019-04-19 17:52 UTC (History)
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Description Dan Ginsburg 2019-04-19 17:52:22 UTC 
Notched devices such as the iPhone X/iPhone XR require applications to not render UI over the "safeArea" such as the notch.  This can be queried from the UIView usinng safeAreaInsets:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiview/2891103-safeareainsets

It appears to me that Android has a similar API:

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/display-cutout

Unity exposes this concept via a safeArea:

https://connect.unity.com/p/updating-your-gui-for-the-iphone-x-and-other-notched-devices

Has an interface been considered to add this to SDL?  For now I can workaround it using platform-specific APIs but it seems this is probably a feature that SDL needs for mobile devices.