I’m pretty new with Android programming, started a few weeks ago. Stackoverflow it’s my new best fried since android day 1. For the 1st time, I would like to actually ask for help instead of reading it somewhere else, mostly because I can’t find the answer to my problem ‘anywhere’.
I’m removing system bars at my Android Activity using:
this.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
this.getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
Also did a modification on my Manifest to include “@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen”.
My device, Archos 70 (and I’m forced to work on this one), have an extra bar at the right side, which I can’t allow to be enable because I want my App to force fullscreen and dont allow users to go back to home screen (it’s a school guide and we want to keep users on the school app).
Any advice on how to remove this extra (per-device) bars?
(I can’t post images, but you can see what I’m talking about at http://www.brunotereso.net/temp/bar.jpg
/cheers
Talk to ARCHOS, as that bar is not part of the standard Android environment. I suspect that it cannot be removed, but that is just a guess.
Bear in mind that the system bar on Android 3.x cannot be removed, except perhaps by custom firmware. The system bar fills the same role as does the status bar and this ARCHOS side bar, and users must be able to return to the home screen, press the BACK button, etc.
I strongly encourage you to consider alternative approaches to your problem (e.g., make the “school guide” be the home screen), or plan on working with somebody to build your own custom firmware.