padding property

WindowPadding padding

The number of physical pixels on each side of the display rectangle into which the application can render, but which may be partially obscured by system UI (such as the system notification area), or or physical intrusions in the display (e.g. overscan regions on television screens or phone sensor housings).

This value is calculated by taking max(0.0, Window.viewPadding - Window.viewInsets). This will treat a system IME that increases the bottom inset as consuming that much of the bottom padding. For example, on an iPhone X, Window.padding.bottom is the same as Window.viewPadding.bottom when the soft keyboard is not drawn (to account for the bottom soft button area), but will be 0.0 when the soft keyboard is visible.

When this changes, onMetricsChanged is called.

The relationship between this Window.viewInsets, Window.viewPadding, and Window.padding are described in more detail in the documentation for Window.

See also:

  • WidgetsBindingObserver, for a mechanism at the widgets layer to observe when this value changes.
  • MediaQuery.of, a simpler mechanism for the same.
  • Scaffold, which automatically applies the padding in material design applications.

Implementation

WindowPadding get padding => _padding;