Can you remove the Nexus 7 Navbar?

Solar2D Android
#1

ok,

so I have a game ready for the markets, googleplay,amazon but have a small issue with the nexus 7.

The gameplay is portrait and the buttons for control etc are at the bottom on the screen next to the navbar.

My issue is that they are too low and are somewhat obscured by the navbar.

All over devices are fine, kindle, kindle hd, htc one x S3 etc as they dont use this nightmare of a bar.

So is there a way to remove it? hide it or repostion it for example at the top maybe ?

If not then how about passing a set of instructions just for the nexus? is it possible? if so how ?

any suggestions most welcome

#2

If you’re talking about the soft button bar (back, home, and running apps) buttons, then no, I don’t know of a way to hide it.   You can get the height of the bar and adjust your positioning accordingly.  See:

http://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/display/topStatusBarContentHeight.html

You may have to also look at your device scale and adjust as  needed.

#3

i too was battling the nexus 7 softbar a while back - i ended up effectively treating it like a 1:1.5 aspect device (because you get 800x1205 usable pixels from the 800x1280 1:1.6 physical pixels) with a device-specific section in config.lua.

when set to NOT scale (that is, contentScaleX/Y are both 1) and status bar hidden, contentWidth/Height, pixelWidth/Height, actualContentWidth/Height and viewableContentWidth/Height all correctly return 800x1205.

in fairness to corona, it’s not their fault - even with raw native code the best you’d probably be able to do is “lights out” mode (the little dots) which still takes as much space (truly removing the status bar can be done, but only lasts for as long as there’s no screen interaction, like watching full-screen video, comes right back with the slightest interaction)

#4

If you’re talking about the soft button bar (back, home, and running apps) buttons, then no, I don’t know of a way to hide it.   You can get the height of the bar and adjust your positioning accordingly.  See:

http://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/display/topStatusBarContentHeight.html

You may have to also look at your device scale and adjust as  needed.

#5

i too was battling the nexus 7 softbar a while back - i ended up effectively treating it like a 1:1.5 aspect device (because you get 800x1205 usable pixels from the 800x1280 1:1.6 physical pixels) with a device-specific section in config.lua.

when set to NOT scale (that is, contentScaleX/Y are both 1) and status bar hidden, contentWidth/Height, pixelWidth/Height, actualContentWidth/Height and viewableContentWidth/Height all correctly return 800x1205.

in fairness to corona, it’s not their fault - even with raw native code the best you’d probably be able to do is “lights out” mode (the little dots) which still takes as much space (truly removing the status bar can be done, but only lasts for as long as there’s no screen interaction, like watching full-screen video, comes right back with the slightest interaction)