I would like my app to hide the Home and Back button which is show at bottom of activity.
I was able to hide the title bar but I am not able to do for Home and Back button.
Is it possible to do it?
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1Unfortunately not: see my related answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21574530/hide-on-screen-buttons-in-android-phonegap-app/21577505?noredirect=1#comment32597476_21577505 – keldar Feb 07 '14 at 09:42
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But I have seen some apps where the Home and Back buttons are hidden but on clicking on the activity it appears back. How is that? – ik024 Feb 07 '14 at 09:45
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@2Dee thanks :) it worked. I did search but dint come across that post. Anyways thanks :) For others who are searching how to do it here it is: myView.setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION); – ik024 Feb 07 '14 at 09:49
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Starting from Android 4.4 KitKat, you can use "immersive" full-screen mode. Here's the detail and some sample codes.
https://developer.android.com/training/system-ui/immersive.html
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I had already got my ans but I will mark this as ans since it also answers my question. Thanks :) – ik024 Feb 07 '14 at 09:53
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@Droider what did u do?to support it in the versions before kitkat? – Rishabh Srivastava Nov 13 '14 at 11:24
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1@RishabhSrivastava myView.setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION); – ik024 Nov 13 '14 at 11:28
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