System Indicators Do Not Respect Gravity.bottom

I have taken the demo analog watch face, and tried getting the system indicators to appear at the bottom, using setStatusBarGravity(Gravity.BOTTOM). It appears that this particular

Solution 1:

It seems that Gravity.BOTTOM is a bit misleading; the vertical alignment is not at the bottom of the screen, but in the bottom-most of some preset positions.

The position of the indicators appears to be relative; above any possible peeking cards and above the hotword indicator, if it is also set to Gravity.BOTTOM.

I found that if I set setHotwordIndicatorGravity(Gravity.CENTER), the system indicators appear slightly lower than setting both indicators to Gravity.BOTTOM. It's not ideal, but it's the best I could get. This no longer appears to be the case in Wear OS.

I've calculated the positions against a 390px circular display as:

• Gravity.TOP: 8.7%
• Gravity.CENTER_VERTICAL: 39.0%
• Gravity.BOTTOM: 57.4%