I tested companion VS android: in companion it works ok, in android the status bar appears.
I create a simple test app in which you can test the same situation of my app: the status bar appears when I click on “password textbox” and after that the bar stay forever in the app (only in android 8).
Confirmed. I get the same issue with Companion and the APK on Android 8.x.
After clicking the Textbox the status bar apears, but .ShowStatusBar returns false. The status bar cannot be removed after this. You must reload the screen.
Other Android versions are likely affected as well.
If I’m not wrong the status bar appears as soon as the the soft keyboard appears, to disable it you have to set ShowStatusBar true and then false ( on android 8 )