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So, imagine this:
You're deep into an application, using it, whatever it might be...say, an email app for example. While reading your email you and a peer are discussing a particular topic...say a fantasy football trade. You are wanting to trade Chad OchoCinco for Donavon McNabb with a fellow player in your league. So you begin to reply, but suddenly you have an ADHD moment. You say to yourself, "I believe I remember ESPN tweeting about McNabb earlier today on how they think he might not play next weeks game. I should check quick." So you hit the home button on your phone, then open up your Twitter app to see what @ESPN said. They report McNabb is injured and will not play next weeks game. So then you open up your browser to see the headlines on ESPN to see whether or not there is a player worth trading for OchoCinco. After about 5 minutes, you return back to your email app to finish the email only to find your phones cache had filled and restarts the app completely and you have lost what you were in the middle of writing.
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What if we created a new type of notification bar? What if, while not just including power controls and message notifications, we could be relayed even more info? What I'm imaging is this: What if there was a way to include RSS feeds such as Tweets, Facebook notifications, and news headlines into the status bar? That way when you drag it down you can either drag down further, or left and right to access said feeds with the notification bar?
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Reminds me of the Samsung Continuum bottom screen.
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Great idea! But sadly, the big Steve will put it in the his next iyo-es.
Nvm, we'll cook it ourselves. Plus, our original notification bar has a lot of rooms for improvement. It's nice to have a tweet bar in it, or check in button, with side-scrollable rss. We should make use all the pixel available, minimize the power menu, stack same notification into one category, and if we can, customize all the notification to our hearts content. Push notifications should be doubled their size, and can show on top of any application. It will slide in for a brief moment and then fades away.
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drpsyko said:
Great idea! But sadly, the big Steve will put it in the his next iyo-es.
Nvm, we'll cook it ourselves. Plus, our original notification bar has a lot of rooms for improvement. It's nice to have a tweet bar in it, or check in button, with side-scrollable rss. We should make use all the pixel available, minimize the power menu, stack same notification into one category, and if we can, customize all the notification to our hearts content. Push notifications should be doubled their size, and can show on top of any application. It will slide in for a brief moment and then fades away.
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Sliding in and then fading away, eh? That sounds kinda like webOS notifications.
Sliding in and then fading away, eh? That sounds kinda like webOS notifications.
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Well, sort of. But, being said before, I prefer the iOS5 notification concept. But I'm sure it will require integration with all the apps. Sound pretty much as the rumoured ice-cream sandwich, but nothing is confirmed yet. At least now we can focus on optimizing the current notification bar.
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and what devices could you make this for??
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and what devices could you make this for??
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Theoretically, any device running whatever version of Android it's programmed in. What would be nice if Cyanogenmod could it include it alongside their work. *nudge nudge, wink wink*
This would be multitasking in every sense of the word. Nice concept and I hope devs can figure this out.
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In a way to save pixels for more places, the notification need not take a whole row but instead just TILES. Imagine when they are put into tiles, we could have 3-4 taking one row, taking much less spaces.
Then we can have multiple tabs as well (like the Sense 2.1 or MIUI GB) where we can put WIDGETS into it, apart from giving us power control toggles and recent apps.
Only issue is, it could be too tedious for single core processor.
I'm thinking an universal MIUI notification bar????
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Hey! I always hate that when I'm running a timer or stopwatch there's no easy way to tell how much time you have left without returning to the app. Thought a cool feature would be to have a small notification on the status bar, always visible like the clock, that you could quickly glance at to check how its going.
My knowledge of Android development is pretty limited, wondering if anyone knows whether this would be possible?
MikusP said:
Hey! I always hate that when I'm running a timer or stopwatch there's no easy way to tell how much time you have left without returning to the app. Thought a cool feature would be to have a small notification on the status bar, always visible like the clock, that you could quickly glance at to check how its going.
My knowledge of Android development is pretty limited, wondering if anyone knows whether this would be possible?
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You should check out Chef's Kitchen Timer: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.rift.android.KitchenTimer
Questions should be asked in Q&A forums, not Development forums.
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Been searching for over an hour between google and XDA.
I am simply trying to find a photo viewer and slideshow app that does true fullscreen. Some people claim it's not possible. But the Youtube app does it perfectly with full screen video. No top bar and no soft buttons on the bottom of my 4.2.2 tablet.
So far all the apps I have tried, at best will hide the top status bar. But many apps of various uses, do that.
Does anyone know of any photo apps that can do this? And if there truly is none currently, I should start looking into what it would take to write one.
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Been searching for over an hour between google and XDA.
I am simply trying to find a photo viewer and slideshow app that does true fullscreen. Some people claim it's not possible. But the Youtube app does it perfectly with full screen video. No top bar and no soft buttons on the bottom of my 4.2.2 tablet.
So far all the apps I have tried, at best will hide the top status bar. But many apps of various uses, do that.
Does anyone know of any photo apps that can do this? And if there truly is none currently, I should start looking into what it would take to write one.
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QuickPic show the pictures in full screen ... ! (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder)
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QuickPic show the pictures in full screen ... ! (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder)
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QuickPic and JustPictures, both do not do true fullscreen. They still have the soft buttons at the bottom which they turn into 3 dots. They only hide the top status bar.
With the Youtube app, when you play a video fullscreen, it's true fullscreen. Both the top and bottom Android bars become hidden and the video uses the full pixel count of the screen.
There are plenty of apps that hide the top status bar. I don't remember the names of all the apps I have tried, but so far none of them hide the bottom soft buttons like the Youtube app.
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QuickPic and JustPictures, both do not do true fullscreen. They still have the soft buttons at the bottom which they turn into 3 dots. They only hide the top status bar.
With the Youtube app, when you play a video fullscreen, it's true fullscreen. Both the top and bottom Android bars become hidden and the video uses the full pixel count of the screen.
There are plenty of apps that hide the top status bar. I don't remember the names of all the apps I have tried, but so far none of them hide the bottom soft buttons like the Youtube app.
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Oh .. You want like that ... Then you could use in combination with this app to hide your nav bar ...
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QuickPic show the pictures in full screen ... ! (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder)
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Oh .. You want like that ... Then you could use in combination with this app to hide your nav bar ...
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Sorry, I guess I am not being specific enough. It appears that my original thoughts are correct. There simply are no apps that will view photos on demand or present a slideshow using the full screen. I will have to research options for programming my own app to do such a thing. Though if it was a simple thing, I am pretty sure ALL the apps would offer it, at least as an option.
Another thing I didn't mention in the original post is that I know there are workarounds such as using the app mentioned above. But I am trying to specifically find an image viewer and slideshow app that will do true fullscreen. And I was using the Youtube app as an example.
Given that apps like Hide Bottom Bar, exist. I would think the method used in that app could be used within image viewing and slideshow apps. So I wonder how it's done code wise.
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Sorry, I guess I am not being specific enough. It appears that my original thoughts are correct. There simply are no apps that will view photos on demand or present a slideshow using the full screen. I will have to research options for programming my own app to do such a thing. Though if it was a simple thing, I am pretty sure ALL the apps would offer it, at least as an option.
Another thing I didn't mention in the original post is that I know there are workarounds such as using the app mentioned above. But I am trying to specifically find an image viewer and slideshow app that will do true fullscreen. And I was using the Youtube app as an example.
Given that apps like Hide Bottom Bar, exist. I would think the method used in that app could be used within image viewing and slideshow apps. So I wonder how it's done code wise.
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Hiding a Nav Bar (i mean totally hiding) is quite simple ... You could use it to make your app (if you're planning to)
Code:
View view = findViewById(R.id.scrollView); // scrollView is the parent view of that activity layout
view .setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION);
I just now tested it and it works ... :good:
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Hiding a Nav Bar (i mean totally hiding) is quite simple ... You could use it to make your app (if you're planning to)
Code:
View view = findViewById(R.id.scrollView); // scrollView is the parent view of that activity layout
view .setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION);
I just now tested it and it works ... :good:
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Thanks. I will try it out. I would love to write my own full screen image viewer and slideshow app. This would be a perfect excuse for me to try.
One thing I noticed in the reviews and the notes for the Hide Bottom Bar app, is it mentioned it requires root for JB. And one reviewer said it doesn't work on 4.2.2. I wonder if your code example works on a non-rooted 4.2.2 like the Google Nexus 7 and others. Though I don't have a non-rooted 4.2.2 to test it on.
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Thanks. I will try it out. I would love to write my own full screen image viewer and slideshow app. This would be a perfect excuse for me to try.
One thing I noticed in the reviews and the notes for the Hide Bottom Bar app, is it mentioned it requires root for JB. And one reviewer said it doesn't work on 4.2.2. I wonder if your code example works on a non-rooted 4.2.2 like the Google Nexus 7 and others. Though I don't have a non-rooted 4.2.2 to test it on.
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I tested it on a Galaxy Tab 2 running Android 4.2.2 (CM10.1) with root permissions disabled ... It works ... :good: :good:
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I tested it on a Galaxy Tab 2 running Android 4.2.2 (CM10.1) with root permissions disabled ... It works ... :good: :good:
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Awesome! Thanks for the confirmation. Wonder why isn't not being used in any of the apps already out there. I would think this would be top of the list for a image viewing app.
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Awesome! Thanks for the confirmation. Wonder why isn't not being used in any of the apps already out there. I would think this would be top of the list for a image viewing app.
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Yea... They could use it ... ... And once you make the App, do tell me .. :fingers-crossed: .. All the best .. ! :good:
Ok i have found a way to make any wallpaper appear with transparent notification and onscreen keys just like stock wallpapers, on stock launcher. It is so easy and i just haven't seen it reported anywhere so I thought I should mention it. All u need to do basically is to zoom in just a little bit on the wallpaper when selecting it. I mean crop it just a little bit. You will see it works like a charm
Updated instructions: long tap on homescreen. Go to wallpapers. Select ANY picture u want. Comp!ete action using "Crop picture". Tap on the upper blue arrow and drag it down just a little bit( really just a timy bit is enough). Select crop. U are done. Enjoy
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Ok i have found a way to make any wallpaper appear with transparent notification and onscreen keys just like stock wallpapers, on stock launcher. It is so easy and i just haven't seen it reported anywhere so I thought I should mention it. All u need to do basically is to zoom in just a little bit on the wallpaper when selecting it. I mean crop it just a little bit. You will see it works like a charm
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im trying to do it but i cant... Can you explain it a bit more? Maybe some screenshots will help.
Doesn't work....
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im trying to do it but i cant... Can you explain it a bit more? Maybe some screenshots will help.
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Screenshots incoming, sorr for zip format but size was too big for jpeg and i had no time to upload them to another site and then post urls. It works like charm the photo i set is one i took with my camera but works on any pic or wallpaper
You can crop it even less than i did but i cropped so much so that it shows on screenshot
that "semi transparent" notification bar is usual. The really transparent notificaton bar is when you dont see any edge of it. So, sorry but its nothing new.
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that "semi transparent" notification bar is usual. The really transparent notificaton bar is when you dont see any edge of it. So, sorry but its nothing new.
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Then quick question. If i dont do the above, i get black bar and black (non transparent) buttons on my homescreen unless i select a stock wallpape?that means there is something wrong with my device? Please advise... Only thing i get that semitransparent effect with other pics is when i do the above. Is there something wrong?
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Then quick question. If i dont do the above, i get black bar and black (non transparent) buttons on my homescreen unless i select a stock wallpape?that means there is something wrong with my device? Please advise... Only thing i get that semitransparent effect with other pics is when i do the above. Is there something wrong?
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Maybe... I tried a camera pic and it show me a semi transparent bar. So, maybe you have something wrong.
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Maybe... I tried a camera pic and it show me a semi transparent bar. So, maybe you have something wrong.
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Ok will try reflashing stock and see if it is solved. Also can a moderator close this thread?
Hi,
I got a used OnePlus 7T Pro, because it was a better choice for me in many ways than new phones. I just absolutely love the screen.
But I was trying to find out, how to make actually everything fully use it. Afaik there used to be a way on A10, that is no longer working.
So I searched the whole week how to hide the status bar, and in the end decided to even root and try various Magisk modules, or EdXposed/GravityBox stuff, pretty much anything I could find because many people reported "status bar height = 0" to do the job. But it really doesn't.
It allows to hide the *contents* of the status bar, BUT the space there is still covered by an ugly bar that apps (browser, whatsapp, anything) aren't drawing over. And that looks even worse than having clock+battery present honestly :'(
So I am desperately trying to search for ANY way to accomplish a fullscreen experience. Does anyone know of one?
I actually like the stock OxygenOS personally. But at this point, I'm willing to hop on any good quality custom rom that would allow it.
(I am even considering somehow downgrading to A10, but would absolutely prefer not to).
I can't believe people here aren't all over this / that everyone with 7/7T pro didn't already do everything in their power to accomplish a full system-wide fullscreen experience. So, desperately pleading anyone, is there some Rom/Mod/Module allowing this?
Thanks
Oh, one additional thing: I noticed, that when changing the option under
Settings -> Developer -> Display Cutout
The status bar (and the reserved space around it) actually does change and move up/down for various options. The "Waterfall Cutout" makes the bar significantly narrower, and apps are properly respecting it (= being drawn a bit higher) too. Which gives me some hope.
There is an installable Magisk module called "None Display Cutout" from here:
[Remove display cutout][ROOT] Full screen 21:9 for apps in landscape, incl Netflix.
Requirements: Magisk root. Download and install the "None Display Cutout" in the Magisk managers module repo. It will add an option in developer settings display cutout options, "No Display Cutout". Choose it, and apps, including netflix, will...
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And "No Nonsense Notch Overlay" from here
[MODULE] N3O No Nonsense Notch Overlay
N3O (or Nitrous Oxide i guess :p) Who is it for: devices with punchole or cutout displays the black bar REALLY annoys you in landscape clock behind camera annoys you just as much! What it does: Uses full screen in landscape mode respects the...
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These just don't try to accomplish complete status bar disappearance, but they touch on the "Display Cutout" settings in some way. So they *could... maybe* be modified to make the status bar completely disappear? Since they alter the overall display bounds even on Android 11 successfully.
Honestly, those 2 are the most promising directions I stumbled upon, but I personally don't know how to modify them to do what I want (= shrink the whole status bar area to 0 pretty much)
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Hi,
I got a used OnePlus 7T Pro, because it was a better choice for me in many ways than new phones. I just absolutely love the screen.
But I was trying to find out, how to make actually everything fully use it. Afaik there used to be a way on A10, that is no longer working.
So I searched the whole week how to hide the status bar, and in the end decided to even root and try various Magisk modules, or EdXposed/GravityBox stuff, pretty much anything I could find because many people reported "status bar height = 0" to do the job. But it really doesn't.
It allows to hide the *contents* of the status bar, BUT the space there is still covered by an ugly bar that apps (browser, whatsapp, anything) aren't drawing over. And that looks even worse than having clock+battery present honestly :'(
So I am desperately trying to search for ANY way to accomplish a fullscreen experience. Does anyone know of one?
I actually like the stock OxygenOS personally. But at this point, I'm willing to hop on any good quality custom rom that would allow it.
(I am even considering somehow downgrading to A10, but would absolutely prefer not to).
I can't believe people here aren't all over this / that everyone with 7/7T pro didn't already do everything in their power to accomplish a full system-wide fullscreen experience. So, desperately pleading anyone, is there some Rom/Mod/Module allowing this?
Thanks
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I too am desperately looking everywhere having hidden the status bar for years and can't find any way to hide it anymore did you find anything that works? i'm rooted with magisk
I am sorry to say that I gave up. If you have energy to be dealing with this still and manage to find a good solution, pls ping me, but otherwise I'm now in peace with not being able to get rid of it Wish I could help but I tried for some time and just didn't find anything fully working.
Fullscreen immersive app can do this and I think Apex launcher can hide this too
I was aiming for getting rid of the status bar everywhere, in photos, twitter, maps, browser etc, not just homescreen (Apex).
And any "immersive apps" that sort-of work only manage to hide the time+notifs+battery from the status bar, but actually retaining the status bar itself :'(( Aka, any app starts drawing only under the area where the status bar always is. So I don't see the battery+time there, but I see an empty space - at that point it's just better to have the time there as normal, it just looks bad when simply empty :-|
Afaik the "immersive app" only work "properly" on the older android versions that support immersive mode, which newer androids don't (((
LadTy said:
I was aiming for getting rid of the status bar everywhere, in photos, twitter, maps, browser etc, not just homescreen (Apex).
And any "immersive apps" that sort-of work only manage to hide the time+notifs+battery from the status bar, but actually retaining the status bar itself :'(( Aka, any app starts drawing only under the area where the status bar always is. So I don't see the battery+time there, but I see an empty space - at that point it's just better to have the time there as normal, it just looks bad when simply empty :-|
Afaik the "immersive app" only work "properly" on the older android versions that support immersive mode, which newer androids don't (((
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androplus wrote a magisk module that hides the status bar in MIUI. I'm not sure if it will work on other devices or not but it works on my Mix Fold 2. definitely worth trying. search the mix fold 2 forum for the link
I own OnePlus 7 Pro and I spent 2 months trying to find the solution. Status bar... I hate it too. So... it will be hit or miss for every app, but (for example Google photos is crashing with it) ... If your phone is rooted and you have installed Magisk:
Download and install LSPosed Framework modul (Zygisk version should be better)
In LSPosed Framework->Repository->Search->App Settings Reborn and enable it.
In App Settings Reborn choose any app you wanna tweak to eliminate Status Bar and then click on the wheel at bottom right corner. Now, you will have to go app after app to tweak it. Choose one and enable tweaking at left top corner. These three options are your new friends: auto hide fullscreen, no title and fullscreen.
Just don't be me... don't forget to stop app you are tweaking or it will not work immediately and don't forget to save the settings you chose by clicking on that floppy disk. And as I wrote earlier, some apps will behave weird and some will crash. Have fun.