Comments on: Small guide: how to support immersive mode under Android 4.4+

By: Hans William Parra Yañez

Hans William Parra Yañez — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:50:00 +0000

I’m developing an app. In the menu makes me a white bar in place of the navigation bar when the immersive mode active. It is only in the menu, not the rest of the activity. Please help.

By: Megzus Digital Tech

Megzus Digital Tech — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:56:00 +0000

In reply to Victor Laskin. Thanks..

By: Victor Laskin

Victor Laskin — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 15:44:00 +0000

In reply to Megzus Digital Tech. Im talking about immersive mode variation when status bar is visible - picture 4 (figure 1) in this guide: https://developer.android.com/training/system-ui/immersive.html

By: Megzus Digital Tech

Megzus Digital Tech — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 06:18:00 +0000

In reply to Victor Laskin. Hi Victor, thanks for this information. By the way what did you mean "there can be no overlay bars on some content" I've attached an image of part of my prototype

By: Victor Laskin

Victor Laskin — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 12:44:00 +0000

In reply to Megzus Digital Tech. No need to set 4.4 limitation. You can use areTranslucentBarsAvailable() function to detect if your device supports immersive mode. And if it does not, you just dont call unimplemented api and everything still works. But you have to take into account that application's content should be aware that there can be no overlay bars on some devices.

By: Megzus Digital Tech

Megzus Digital Tech — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 12:09:00 +0000

Thanks for this information. Quick question. If one develops and app using this new immersive mode function / feature then what would happen if someone tries to install that app / .apk on a pre Android 4.4 device. Is there a way for the code to work on pre and post 4.4 devices.

I say this as I made an app recently which worked on old and new devices (4.2, 4.4 and 5.0) but then after putting Immersive mode onto the app it now will only install on 4.4 and above devices.

By: Victor Laskin

Victor Laskin — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:00:49 +0000

In reply to Andy. Nice to hear it :)

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:41:49 +0000

Thank you very much… A load of issues came up on Beta testing and you article saved my ass!

By: Victor Laskin

Victor Laskin — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 06:42:11 +0000

In reply to Vivek. Its just boolean flag, which is set to true when you first enter immersive mode. And it shows that you require to keep immersive mode on (when mode is enabled and device supports it).

By: Vivek

Vivek — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 05:39:59 +0000

What is the default value for isApplicationInImmersiveMode ? And where it is changed ?

By: Victor Laskin

Victor Laskin — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 06:22:25 +0000

In reply to karthikeyan. Im sorry that i cant put full example here as its part of my complex app. If you just want full screen behaviour use WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN flag. Also see WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_IN_SCREEN flag.