Kindle Fire Skin - show status bar at bottom

Recommend an update for Kindle Fire skin to include that status bar at the bottom that you can’t remove with code.

Will probably prevent some last minute headaches for people :slight_smile: [import]uid: 32462 topic_id: 20191 reply_id: 320191[/import]

Noted - will bring it up in our next meeting :slight_smile:

Peach [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 20191 reply_id: 78874[/import]

@jflowers45: Please, which is its size?
So, the area that we can use is smaller than 1024 x 600?

Thank you. [import]uid: 50425 topic_id: 20191 reply_id: 82272[/import]

For that matter, It’s not clear why the Corona scaling doesn’t handle this for us. This is an opaque status bar than cannot be hidden, so it is not part of the display area by any definition. It’s kind of a pain when you use content scaling and it works on every device except for the Kindle Fire (because the bottom 5% of the Corona-scaled display is obscured / not usable).

The “let’s pretend the status bar doesn’t exist” argument works great on the iPhone (where apps can hide the status bar, and most apps do this, and the status bar isn’t a *required* OS-level UI element). But since the Kindle Fire only has the one button (for power), you need that status bar at all times to navigate, which is why they don’t give you a way to hide it.

But yeah, anyway, that area under the Kindle Fire status bar, that’s not part of the referenceable display, even though Corona seems to think it is.

I just bugged this. I really hope Corona can fix this so I don’t have to go through every screen of my app and figure out how to cheat it to work on the Fire. [import]uid: 111481 topic_id: 20191 reply_id: 114359[/import]