Fullscreen Activity in Android?

Question

How do I make an activity full screen? I mean without the notification bar. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Here is an example code. You can turn on/off flags to hide/show specific parts.

public static void hideSystemUI(Activity activity) {
    View decorView = activity.getWindow().getDecorView();
    decorView.setSystemUiVisibility(
            View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE
                    | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN
                    //| View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_HIDE_NAVIGATION
                    //| View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION
                    | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN // hide status bar
                    | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_IMMERSIVE);
}

Then, you reset to the default state:

public static void showSystemUI(Activity activity) {
    View decorView = activity.getWindow().getDecorView();
    decorView.setSystemUiVisibility(
            View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE
                    | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_HIDE_NAVIGATION
                    | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN);
}

You can call the above functions from your onCreate:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.course_activity);
    UiUtils.hideSystemUI(this);
}

Answer 2

Try this with appcompat from style.xml. It can support with all platforms.

<!-- Application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme.FullScreen" parent="AppTheme">
    <item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
</style>


<!-- Application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar" />

Answer 3

I wanted to use my own theme instead of using @android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen. But it wasn't working as some post on here had mentioned, so I did some tweaking to figure it out.

In AndroidManifest.xml:

<activity
    android:name=".ui.activity.MyActivity"
    android:theme="@style/MyTheme">
</activity>

In styles.xml:

<style name="MyTheme">
    <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
</style>

Note: in my case I had to use name="windowActionBar" instead of name="android:windowActionBar" before it worked properly. So I just used both to make sure in the case I need to port to a new Android version later.

Answer 4

If your using AppCompat and ActionBarActivity, then use this

getSupportActionBar().hide();

Answer 5

There's a technique called Immersive Full-Screen Mode available in KitKat.

Example

Answer 6

getWindow().addFlags(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN);