Simple native extension library for Defold that will change the view/render of a game to fit into the safe area on iPhones and Android(API 28+) with notch.
To use this library in your Defold project, add the following URL to your game.project dependencies:
https://github.com/defold/extension-safearea/archive/master.zip
We recommend using a link to a zip file of a specific release.
Just add the library to your project. The library will automatically resize the view on app start.
You can configure the color used outside the view by setting the game.project setting safearea.background_* values, for example;
[safearea]
background_red = 0.0
background_green = 1.0
background_blue = 0.0
This would make the background outside the safe area be green. (The default background color is black).
Add the library to your project and set safearea.resize_game_view to 0 in your game.project:
[safearea]
resize_game_view = 0
This will disable the “Easy mode” behaviour and make the game view fill the whole screen (like Defold’s default behaviour).
Now you can use safearea.get_insets() to query the extent of the safe area:
local insets, status = safearea.get_insets()
-- The amount of "unsafe" space against each edge of the screen, in pixels
print(insets.top, insets.right, insets.bottom, insets.left)
-- Status is one of the following values:
-- safearea.STATUS_OK - value is avaliable and valid, you may fully trust it.
-- safearea.STATUS_NOT_AVAILABLE - functionality isn't available on this platform or OS version. Values will be 0
-- safearea.STATUS_NOT_READY_YET - values aren't ready yet. Depends on platform and OS it may take a while (usually up to 200ms) to be ready, check later. Values will be 0