Android bottom navigation bar blocks buttons

So I found the cause of this, it’s due to Android’s edge-to-edge interface which lets apps use the entire screen space, with the status bar and the navigation bar overlapping the content when you’re using button navigation instead of gesture navigation. I thought this was handled properly everywhere, but looks like on Samsung with Android 15+ devices it isn’t.

I personally use a Google Pixel, and the generic emulators that you use for development didn’t have this issue. I was able to replicate it using Samsung’s test lab, which lets you use real Samsung devices to test on.

Anyway, I changed the layout to allow padding at the bottom when this happens and the padding’s background color will be the same as the app bar.

I’m just testing a few things for stability, but a fix will soon be available.

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