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Custom Navigation Bar across application

I'm interested in an app that customizes the Android NavigationBar across all my applications. The same way that, i.e. NavBar Apps does it.

This far, I found two possibilities, but it doesn't fit exactly what I'm looking for:

SystemBarTint library (here) It only works if you set your app to translucent, and display a background "tint" behind the NavigationBar.

setNavigationBarColor(int color) (here) You can only use a color (and not a drawable) for the NavigationBar.

I want do an app that is always running and can set a drawable instead of the black color of the NavigationBar

Solution

  • I found out a way to customize the NavigationBar in (almost) all apps. (following this)

    Using this permission:

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW"/>

    Then I created a Service that calls:

    WindowManager.addView(View v, LayoutParams p)

    And my MainActivity starts this Service.