Fix for full screen apps not having menu buttons - Nook Color Android Development

-Install Launcher Pro and launch it.
-Press Menu then Preferences.
-Select Behavior Settings
-Change Home Key Action to Show/Hide Status bar.
-Restart Launcher Pro.
Now when you are in a full screen game app like Angry Birds, hit the Nook button and you will see the status bar with the back button, menu button, etc.

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Hitting the nook button just takes me back to LauncherPro. It only hides and unhides the status bar when I am IN LauncherPro.

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Yeah... seeing that now. Could have sworn it actually brought up the menu when I was still in the game.

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Oh well. Lets keep trying to find a fix.

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any progress on this yet? i would love this to help with my games.

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I have an idea for a workaround fix. I'm not really sure whether this is possible at all or how long it might take someone to program this:
A proxy home application:
1. When you press the nook button and you are not on the home screen (preferably only if you are in fullscreen mode, but I'm not sure if you can get this info easily) you get a popup menu that displays you all the Android buttons, and "settings".
2. In the settings you can set the "real" home's package name. AFAIK the HOME button sends something like a "show launcher" (can't be bothered to look it up at the moment) Intent to the system, so we can't just send it again when we press the virtual "home" button. Unless of course you "always" want to choose what happens when you press the nook button.
3. The other buttons (back & menu) would just forward the keypress event to the currently running Activity (the one on top of the stack). Now there's the thing I'm not sure about: is this possible at all? I believe there are remote control apps that forward input from your PC to your Android device, so I guess it should be possible.
Something like this... I guess if this is possible it should be fairly easy for someone who is familiar with input methods and launcher code to put something like this together.

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Powerstrip behaves this way. It is a popup menu I retrieve by double tapping home. Single press of home loads whatever launcher is configured in Powerstrip's settings. Maybe something similar but when you double tap shows the back and menu keys overlayed onscreen. Shouldn't be too hard to program for someone versed in Android development (not me).

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I remember early talks of changing the volume keys to act as menu and back. You could always change the volume in the UI.

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I've mapped my volume keys to home/back. Works great.

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DebauchedSloth said:
I've mapped my volume keys to home/back. Works great.
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You going to tell us how?

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Code:
mkdir /tmp/foo
cd /tmp/foo
adb pull /system/usr/keylayout .
sed -i 's/VOLUME_DOWN/MENU/g' *
sed -i 's/VOLUME_UP/BACK/g' *
adb shell mount -o rw,remount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
find . -exec adb push {} /system/usr/keylayout/ \;
adb shell mount -o ro,remount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
adb shell sync
adb reboot
cd
rm -r /tmp/foo

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DebauchedSloth said:
Code:
mkdir /tmp/foo
cd /tmp/foo
adb pull /system/usr/keylayout .
sed -i 's/VOLUME_DOWN/MENU/g' *
sed -i 's/VOLUME_UP/BACK/g' *
adb shell mount -o rw,remount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
find . -exec adb push {} /system/usr/keylayout/ \;
adb shell mount -o ro,remount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
adb shell sync
adb reboot
cd
rm -r /tmp/foo
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wouldn't this remove all volume functionality?
Would I still be able to change volume while in a Music app?

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gormly said:
wouldn't this remove all volume functionality?
Would I still be able to change volume while in a Music app?
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It would remove the volume button functionality... I'm not sure if there's a software volume setting somewhere... There's talk over here about porting Cyanogen's Mod or something to enable a Home button-Volume combo that restores volume functionality.
For me, the volume is less of a concern - I'm pretty much always within reach of my EVO - and I use that for music primarily.

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DebauchedSloth said:
I've mapped my volume keys to home/back. Works great.
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Home/back, or menu/back? I mean, we already have a home button ...
(but awesome, btw)

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There's a bunch of widgets you can use instead to control audio volume.

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DebauchedSloth said:
Code:
mkdir /tmp/foo
cd /tmp/foo
adb pull /system/usr/keylayout .
sed -i 's/VOLUME_DOWN/MENU/g' *
sed -i 's/VOLUME_UP/BACK/g' *
adb shell mount -o rw,remount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
find . -exec adb push {} /system/usr/keylayout/ \;
adb shell mount -o ro,remount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
adb shell sync
adb reboot
cd
rm -r /tmp/foo
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Been a long time since I've used sed, but it's not liking the -i switch...

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mhoepfin said:
Been a long time since I've used sed, but it's not liking the -i switch...
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Make sure you have a space between the g' and the * - I ran in to the same problem myself.

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I noticed that when launching Root Explorer and applications like Maps actually have the Back and Menu button located at the bottom, Nook dock bar. However, no Search button was there.
Perhaps it can be switched on somewhere in the settings?

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pezhore said:
Make sure you have a space between the g' and the * - I ran in to the same problem myself.
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Space is there, still not working... Hmm...

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You don't have to use sed, you can use any text editor which is faithful to unix file formats (IE, doesn't use CR/LF or CR, just LF). Vi is fine, or on windows, maybe something like crimson editor.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=859310