What is Google Material Design for Landscape Tablet Navigation? (NavBar) - android

Working on re-designing an application that is Android and is used in Landscape mode.
Want to be able to have the user 1 click to navigate.
It currently has tabs on the left side (basically a bottom nav bar on the left)
Can't find resources that say anything about navigation bar on Tablet Landscape mode.
Anyone have creative ideas or examples of how people do it?
Thanks!

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Android navigation bar on left side

There is a task to display the navigation bar on the left side for android 4.4.2. Nothing of the sort found. Is it possible to do this?
Or, for example, to hide the navigation bar, and on the left side add own custom menu on the same level of layouts hierarchy order content is shifted to the size of the menu?
This solution should work everywhere, not just in one application.
Thanks for the help.
As far as I know you see that navigation bar there because you are using emulator genymotion. On real devices you should not be able to see it. Besides, those back button are physical buttons on some devices like samsung s2.
If you want a menu on the left you should implement navigation drawer. Good luck

Hide navigation bar, android 4.2+

Is it possible to hide navigation bar on e.g. tablets in activity, so it does not appear when user is clicking on the screen?
I want it to appear only when user is swiping from bottom to middle of the screen, just like in e.g. Real Racing 3.
When I use:
myView.setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION);
Unfortunetly navigation bar is hidden, but when user is clicking, it appears again. I want it to work only with this swipe gesture. How it can be achieved?
This is a platform behavior. Apps do not have the sort of control of the navigation bar that you are looking for, and for good reason. All it takes is one app not implementing a way to show the nav bar and the user is stuck. You will have to design your app with the platform's behavior in mind.

Android: Tabbed actionbar in portrait mode

I am unsure what to search for this so all links are appreciated.
When I change the orientation of my device to portrait mode all the tabs are going below the action bar, not on it, even though there is plenty of room (I am using 2 tabs while testing on a Nexus 10). Will the tabs always appear below the action bar in portrait mode or is there a way around this?
What I want to happen:
(source: android.com)
What is happening: NOTE: this is the behavior I am getting even when there is PLENTY of room to display the tabs in the action bar:
(source: android.com)
Thanks in advance!
Will the tabs always appear below the action bar in portrait mode
On small/normal screens, yes. Action bar tabs will go where the action bar implementation wants to put them... which includes them not being tabs at all in some cases, but a drop-down list instead.

ActionBar Behavior

I know there are lots of question regarding Action bar. And may be my question does not require code sample, but this is purely coding stuff.
How do android take decision that in action bar it need to show TABS or List. My question is strictly on android 4.0 and above, whether smart phone or tablet.
Is there some way we can find out that device will be showing Spinner or tabs in action bar.
My question arised when i was deploying my app to Google nexus and Samsung Tab2. In tab I was getting action bar as List in portrait mode and as tab in landscape mode. While i observed opposite in Google Nexus. NOTE This happens when I set my Navigation mode as Tab actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
My question is simple and straight, How Android decide to show List or Tab in action bar.??
and how Developer can check whether List mode will shown or Tab will be shown in action bar?
What I can assume and find that android by itself check for the compact mode and show spinner and tabs accordingly. Not a satisfactory answer but I don't have any thing else to think and find.Any answer with better explanation is acceptable and welcome.
if actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS); is set post 4.0 android will check whether enough space is available to show tabs or not. If its not then it transfers tabs to spinner(As drop down).

Android - Tabbed Navigation in Landscape Orientation

We are building an Android 4.0 app with tabbed navigation at the top. This all works great in portrait mode but when the application changes to landscape mode (which we want to support), the default behaviour is for the tabs to move up into the top/action bar which seems to eliminate the ability to have a screen title shown and seems crowded with the actions that appear on the right of the top/action bar.
What is the best approach to prevent this and how difficult would it be to override this default behaviour?

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