Question

When running manually compiled Android apps on the Acer Iconia Smart, there always remains a black bar at the bottom of the screen that is not usable by the apps. This happens for my own as well as other apps compiled from source. Pre-installed apps do not show this behavior and make use of the whole screen.

The device has a 1024×480 screen, but I can only make use of 855×480 pixels. This is the size reported by getResources().getDisplayMetrics().

So far, any attempts to fix the issue have failed, including:

• manually changing the display metrics (using getResources().updateConfiguration(config, metrics).

• setting all possible attributes of <supports-screens> to true in the Android manifest.

android:minSdkVersion is set to 10, corresponding to the Android 2.3.3 version on the device.

Any ideas? Did anybody successfully deploy self-compiled apps on this device that make use of the entire screen estate?

Answer 1

Adding the following line to the application’s Android manifest makes the entire screen available:

 <uses-feature android:name="com.acer.android.XLONG_SCREEN" 
               android:required="false" />