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

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.

Solution

  • 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).