Android: app area reduced after upgranding gradle to 7.4.0-CodePudding

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wrong look: (pixel 3 api 33 emulator)

wrong look: (pixel 3 api 33 emulator with gesture navigation)

wrong look: (physical pixel 6a with gesture navigation)

wrong look: (pixel 6 api 26 emulator)

the Layout Inspector only shows the correct app area down to the bottom navigation menu, so it looks like the system is adding the extra space. also bottom sheets begin above the added space. so it looks like the app has a maximum aspect ratio and doesn't expand to the whole screen lenght

any idea what's going on?

CodePudding user response：

I finally solved this by adding

android:resizeableActivity="true"

to my <application> tag thanks to this question.

However it remains a mistery how this was the culprit as the issue only appeared after upgrading gradle and also according to the documentation this attribute should default to true.