Fixing Broken UI (edge-to-edge) in React Native Apps on Android 15

📱 I recently increased the targetSdkVersion to 35, and a few days later, I noticed a strange UI issue on Android 15 devices.

🔍 The search location bar is overlapping with the status bar — which looks pretty weird. I’m already aware of the changes related to edge-to-edge content display in views, so this wasn’t entirely unexpected.

I know… this might sound boring, and you’re probably thinking of closing the tab 😅 — haha!

🛠️ Let’s just get to the solution!

1- Use react-native-safe-area-context (Recommended)

You can get the padding just try the code

// do not forgot to import
import { useSafeAreaInsets } from 'react-native-safe-area-context';

 const insets = useSafeAreaInsets();

 paddingTop: insets.top, // return x value for top padding
 paddingBottom: insets.bottom, // return x value for bottom padding
 paddingLeft: insets.left, // return x value for left padding
 paddingRight: insets.right, // return x value for right padding

2- Just add a quick fix-

just open your AndroidManifest.xml file (path- android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml) and add a meta-data tag

        <meta-data
        android:name="android.window.extensions.disableEdgeToEdge"
        android:value="true" />

now open the styles.xml file (path you already know) and just add a one line of code

<item name="android:windowOptOutEdgeToEdgeEnforcement">true</item>

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