I developed an app that plays a video on fullscreen mode, it works fine on mobile phones but when I tested it on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 running on Honeycomb 3.1 it seems the taskbar still stays on the bottom.
I tried running some apps like angry birds but still it can't run on fullscreen mode, the taskbar stays on the bottom still. Running the youtube app just makes taskbar into black and the screen mode stays the same.
Is this a limitation on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1? or this a standard on all HoneyComb?
Thanks Android Gurus =)
The bottom bar can never go away on Honeycomb, because since tablets do not have hardware home or back buttons, the only way for the user to exit your app is to use the bottom status bar. If it were hideable, they would be stuck in your app, and that wouldn't be a good user experience.
AmandeepGrewal is correct, but you should also be able to "dim" the bar with:
setSystemUiVisibility(int).
You can see if this is of any help:
ActionBar actionBar = activity.getActionBar();
if (actionBar != null) {
//mContentView.setSystemUiVisibility(visibility);
if (visibility == View.STATUS_BAR_VISIBLE) {
actionBar.show();
} else {
actionBar.hide();
}
}
Well, apparently, it is possible for the taskbar to be hidden completely on Honeycomb 3.2 because I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab Plus 7.0, and when the Kindle app runs, the taskbar completely disappears. If one taps the screen anywhere in the Kindle app, the taskbar pops back up.
Presumably, any app could be written or modified to allow this capability.
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I have the following problem: in all activities of an Android app there is a blank (black) space above the navigation bar at the bottom, on specific devices (Pixel 3a and Redmi Note 8T):
I have tried many things, most search results have to do with setting the app to full screen, which basically only takes care of the status bar (either hiding it or making it translucent). The devices I have tested this with are on Android 9.0 and 10.0.
Now, it is important to note that on the Redmi Note 8T (Android 9.0) there is this button in the navigation bar:
If I tap this button, app needs to be started again, but the gap is gone (correct):
How can I get rid of this gap programmatically?
Why I can't see action settings in action bar in Samsung Mini S3 after simple hello world compilation where it shows up in Nexus 7. Is it depend on somehow in app theme the one I am using? I tried to change app theme but it looks like it always takes Nexus S layout even i select Samsung Mini Display size. Any idea ?
PS. I also can't select Samsung Mini Display size 800*480 where in ADB i have option 480*800
If you are using the default action bar which gets created in a new android application you will of course not see the overflow menu on the samsung mini S3 because if i am not mistaken then s3 mini has a hard button on the left which will open up the overflow menu for you
ok, so I'm using this plugin for a website I'm developing and I came across a tricky bug. the menu won't work on android on landscape orientation. when one of the buttons who trigger the expanding menu is pushed (tapped) the menu opens, but when I try to tap to collapse it back it won't work. I've tested on several android versions and a couple of android mobile devices (htc, samsung) and the result is the same. I even tried this link from the website (the example page) on this android devices and the bug is also there.
any ideas?
I'm trying to make my app to Fullscreen (with no any bar) how I can coding to set it. (Android version 4.0.3)
Thx very Much
You can't hide that bar. On Honeycomb(3.0) there was a bug that would allow it to be hidden(on a rooted device), but it was fixed in ICS(4.0). (Note: see this answer for more techniques that worked on 3.0)As of now there is no way to do it on 4.0. Unfortunately, because devices no longer have physical buttons the navigation buttons (home and back) have to be put onto the screen. Because that bar contains the navigation buttons if you were to hide it, it would be possible to "lock" the user out of the device by not allowing them to leave your application(at least until they rebooted into safe mode).
So if you want to do that you'll have to make your own custom version of the OS to allow for it.
playing around with a new samsung tablet i noticed they have mini apps on the menu bar that you can overlay like a windows machine over any app you are currently in. Is this strictly samsung touch wiz or something that can natively be created / developed?
The mini apps bar / tray icon are features designed by Samsung. They developed them.
The feature is not related with the Touch Wiz Laucher itself (for instance, you can develop your own Launcher, and the mini apps tray will continue to appear.
About write or modify these feature: This is a more complicated issue, because Samsung doesn't publish their version of the Android, so we can't see what is implemented.
I think that the only thing you can do is blocking or uninstall the mini apps that appear in the bottom list.
Hope this helped you.