Kindle Fire: Minimizing the slim gray bar at the bottom of the screen?

Question

At the bottom of an app running on Kindle Fire, there's a slim gray bar with the Home button, Back button, Menu button, and Search button.

I've seen some apps minimize this gray bar automatically after X seconds of no use (in such a way that it's even slimmer, and there's only one button visible: the maximize button). How is this accomplished? For my app, the gray bar stays maximized throughout the entire duration of the app.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '11 at 14:48

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How is this accomplished?

The bar will minimize for activities that request to have the full screen (e.g., android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" on the <activity> element in the manifest).

answered Dec 22 '11 at 14:48

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@r1k0: If by "3.0" you mean Android 3.0+, then no. If a device has a system bar, the system bar is a permanent fixture. – CommonsWare Jan 05 '12 at 13:12
how about hiding the search icon or other elements? www.stackoverflow.com/questions/10956808/kindle-fire-menu-actionbar-search-icon-shows-on-every-activity-need-to-supres – Code Droid Jun 08 '12 at 23:43

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '12 at 17:53

The bar is minimized like you want when the activity is in full-screen mode. In your activity's onCreate method you can request full-screen mode as follows:

getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

Do this right after calling super.onCreate()

Kindle Fire: Minimizing the slim gray bar at the bottom of the screen?

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