So something that's always bugged me about how Android currently handles the navbar, on a phone, if you go into landscape mode, the navbar stays in the same position as in portrait mode. This makes sense, as you'll be holding it from the sides.
Is there a way to make a tablet do this, via kernal mod or something better? Having the navbar on the bottom, especially on a Nexus 7, doesn't make sense for a 7" tablet.
Help would be appreciated
Search for GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys in play store.
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Search for GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys in play store.
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This app won't work. Plus I find it a bit of a messy solution if it were to. I don't want to hide the navbar, I simply want to move it to the right, or left, side of the screen.
Ultimate Dynamic Navbar and GMD do have the option to move the navbar to the right when in landscape mode but it also disappear .
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Is there a way to make the navigation bar stay on the right side of the screen when in landscape mode like the Nexus phones (see attachments)? The screen is already quite narrow to begin with; it seems like such a waste of space for the software buttons to be on the bottom. I already searched around but the best I've found so far is GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys. It helps but I'd rather move the navigation bar to the side instead of hiding it. Stock ROM, rooted.
Yeah I want this as well.
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Aokp had this feature although it got messed up in later nightlies.
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Gonna have to wait for custom Roms but I don't think any of the developers have this thing yet? I'm probably wrong though
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Its not only a waste of valuable screen space in landscape, it puts the home key in the least convenient place possible: in the middle as far as possible from both thumbs. What a horrible design decision.
Only reason I'm getting custom rom is this.
Apex launcher will do this. Not sure why you would want to tho.
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Apex launcher will do this. Not sure why you would want to tho.
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where in APEX?
If you have root GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys allows to hide stock navigation bar and adds Quick Bar (autohide navigation bar) instead. Latest beta added option to move Quick Bar to side in landscape.
I had it on PA3.93, by default. But then I played around with UIs & updating PA... then I couldn't see it anymore.
I think it's pretty neat. I'm on a different ROM (Slim) now.
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If you have root GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys allows to hide stock navigation bar and adds Quick Bar (autohide navigation bar) instead. Latest beta added option to move Quick Bar to side in landscape.
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Ohhhhh good to know about the option to move to the side. Thanks.
What I didn't love about autohide was that there was stuff under the bar when it wasn't hidden. That means you don't just hide it when you want more real estate, but also when its blocking things. Just leaving it on the side would have been better.
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Its not only a waste of valuable screen space in landscape, it puts the home key in the least convenient place possible: in the middle as far as possible from both thumbs. What a horrible design decision.
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The whole in screen nav bar in general was a horrible design decision. Google should fire whoever came up with that idea. My biggest gripe with Android is that stupid nav bar. All Android devices should have 3 capacitive buttons.
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The whole in screen nav bar in general was a horrible design decision. Google should fire whoever came up with that idea. My biggest gripe with Android is that stupid nav bar. All Android devices should have 3 capacitive buttons.
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I agree with you 100 percent. But surprisingly a lot of folks seem to love them. It baffles me to waste some of the most valuable screen real estate (near your thumbs) but to each his own.
My solution is to return the nexus 7 and buyb Samsung devices. I have an s3 phone, Note 8, and Tab 3 8. One of the two tablets will go but I cant ddecide which. Both are quite nice.
Dimethyl said:
Is there a way to make the navigation bar stay on the right side of the screen when in landscape mode like the Nexus phones (see attachments)? The screen is already quite narrow to begin with; it seems like such a waste of space for the software buttons to be on the bottom. I already searched around but the best I've found so far is GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys. It helps but I'd rather move the navigation bar to the side instead of hiding it. Stock ROM, rooted.
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It's not what you are looking for but checkout my thread on how to reduce the size of the navigation bar. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2412699
+1 would also like to see it on the side like on my galaxy nexus. if anyone could make a flashable zip would be great. don´t want to use a thirdapplication for something "simple" like that. but gonna give the app a try.
GMD Auto Hide Softkeys + GMD Gesture Control (to replace the Back, Home and Recent buttons with gestures - use 1-step gestures with 3 fingers to make it fastest and most convenient).
In GMD Auto Hide, set it so that the navigation bar comes up by swiping, not by tapping. And set "Trigger sensitivity" to 1 so that taps in the lowest area are not interpreted as trigger attempts (important when using keyboard).
Best Solution, hands down. Try it.
I actually wanted the opposite; nav-bar on bottom.
I finally got it on the bottom by messing around in the PA hybrid properties. Changed my interface to Phablet mode with a DPI of 320, nav-bar height set to 50% for more screen real-estate (plus, I like the smaller button icons). I know you probably want a solution other than "Flash x custom ROM and mess with these settings" but if nothing else, maybe the DPI and nav-bar settings will point you in the right direction. Plus, you might actually decide to flash PA and edit those settings.
Wished nav bar would relocate to the top when playing games since I always hit them by accident ruining the experience. Prefer hardware buttons because of this.
GMD Auto Hide Soft Keys can also completely disable navbar.
You also can use Xposed Framework with module "Gravity Box" and set to "Expanded Desktop".
Hello friends!
I got my LG G Pad Yesterday
Is there a way to remove the Front Touch Buttons? I couldn't see any options in Settings! Is it possible after rooting?
I plan to use only gestures for the front key button functions... May be we can use the screen real estate more effectively if we get rid of the buttons?
Any thoughts / suggestions?
I just installed an app called GMD Auto Hide from the Play Store. It provides an auto-hide feature for the touch buttons. It seems to work well, except that it overrides the setting on the phone that lets you change the button order. I want to set up the soft touch buttons so that the "back" key is on the right to match my Samsung phone. It appears that the GMD app doesn't have a setting for that. Too bad.
Does anybody know a way to get auto-hide and also customize the button positions?
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I just installed an app called GMD Auto Hide from the Play Store. It provides an auto-hide feature for the touch buttons. It seems to work well, except that it overrides the setting on the phone that lets you change the button order. I want to set up the soft touch buttons so that the "back" key is on the right to match my Samsung phone. It appears that the GMD app doesn't have a setting for that. Too bad.
Does anybody know a way to get auto-hide and also customize the button positions?
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Thanks for the quick reply.
With GMD auto hide, does the display get extended to the button area or the area just becomes blank?
I am thinking of using GMD gesture launcher to to replace the buttons...
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Thanks for the quick reply.
With GMD auto hide, does the display get extended to the button area or the area just becomes blank?
I am thinking of using GMD gesture launcher to to replace the buttons...
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It gets extended. I haven't used it very much yet, but it looks like it does the job, if you don't mind the button order.
Ok, I played with the app some more. When it replaces the soft touch keys, it puts a red line at the bottom. I did get it to put the back button on the right side, but another issue is that it puts a "recent apps" button where the menu button usually goes, then it puts a different menu button on the right edge. I wish it would l wish it had more options to set it up the way I want to.
Ultimate Dynamic Navbar THE BEST)))
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Ultimate Dynamic Navbar THE BEST)))
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I tried it, but it didn't work for me. The normal soft touch keys were not hidden.
GMD Gesture is fantastic. It hide autobar (your tab need to be rooted) and replace virtual button by gesture that you can define by yourself. Moreover, the developper is very reactive..
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GMD Gesture is fantastic. It hide autobar (your tab need to be rooted) and replace virtual button by gesture that you can define by yourself. Moreover, the developper is very reactive..
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Thanks. GMD does the job quite well. I overlooked the status bar on/off part in GMD?
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I just bought the Nexus 7 2013, and coming from the original Galaxy Tab (2010) the absence of hardware buttons drives me crazy because of the Navigation Bar (I hope this is the right term for it) which I dont like.
Reasons:
- I press the buttons accidentally when using the keyboard
- It is a waste of vertical screen space when in landscape mode
So is there any way to put the navbar to the right in landscape mode (like on most phones)? Like some magic build.prop hack?
I am currently on cm11 official nightlies, but changing roms or patching the source myself if necessary is an option too.
Any hints?
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I just bought the Nexus 7 2013, and coming from the original Galaxy Tab (2010) the absence of hardware buttons drives me crazy because of the Navigation Bar (I hope this is the right term for it) which I dont like.
Reasons:
- I press the buttons accidentally when using the keyboard
- It is a waste of vertical screen space when in landscape mode
So is there any way to put the navbar to the right in landscape mode (like on most phones)? Like some magic build.prop hack?
I am currently on cm11 official nightlies, but changing roms or patching the source myself if necessary is an option too.
Any hints?
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Its not an ideal solution, bit you can use phab7 -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-phab7-v0-99-reboot-ui-switcher-t2545080
Chose phone ui, and it will put them on the right in landscape. I say its not ideal because it spread's the buttons out and causes the Google now ring to be off center. Unfortunately it doesn't support tablet ui (apparently google took it out in 4.4+), but phone ui, and split menus work on KitKat.
I personality use pie controls from gravity box, and force immersive on any apps I want fullscreen with Xutilites -
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.nagopy.android.xposed.utilities
So all my games/chrome/play magazines/etc. automatically go immersive, I hated having to switch it on and off all the time, so this worked for me. I also use gravity box to make the nav bar smaller, so when it is there it takes up less room. The nav bar will still pop up with the keyboard if you go this rout tho. You could disable it completely with gravity box, but you would have to really like pie controls for that lol. Gravity box -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/app-gravitybox-v2-9-1-tweak-box-android-t2554049
These are all Xposed framework mods BTW, I am assuming you'd be comfortable with this since your running a custom ROM. I hate the lost pixels as well. Best of luck reclaiming the rest your screen
Thanks for the detailed reply :good:
I am very satisfied with the results with phab7.
Adding a 4th icon to the navigation bar was necessary to have them look centered again.
I am completely gapps free - so the google now problem does not apply to me
Someone got to permanent hide the softkeys on nougat? I've already tried putting "qemu.hw.mainkeys=1" at the end of build.prop as I always did in my other phones, but that don't seen to work. I've tried too using a lot of overlays to set the softkeys height to 0, but with no sucess also. Besides that, I've tried to decompile de framework-res.apk and modify the navbar height value to 0, what gives me no navigation bar but no status bar too.
Any another way that will work? Am I missing something? I really want to use lmt and hide those screen space eaters
Just use https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-custom-navigation-bar-customize-t3590967, there is an option to hide the navigation bar
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Just use https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-custom-navigation-bar-customize-t3590967, there is an option to hide the navigation bar
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Unfortunately a swipe up will bring the buttons, and I want to really disable it in order to use lmt on the bottom of the screen
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Someone got to permanent hide the softkeys on nougat? I've already tried putting "qemu.hw.mainkeys=1" at the end of build.prop as I always did in my other phones, but that don't seen to work. I've tried too using a lot of overlays to set the softkeys height to 0, but with no sucess also. Besides that, I've tried to decompile de framework-res.apk and modify the navbar height value to 0, what gives me no navigation bar but no status bar too.
Any another way that will work? Am I missing something? I really want to use lmt and hide those screen space eaters
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You ever figure this out..this has got to be the most annoying thing about this phone.
I use Assistive touch app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.luutinhit.assistivetouch and have a floating button which helps me to navigate. One tap for back, double tap to home and hold for recent. It's quite useful and convenient. It's always there at the thumb position and easy to reach. I use Nougat/Oreo Quick Settings app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.simonesestito.ntiles and created a custom tile for immersive mode to hide navbars only, yes if you swipe from bottom you'll find the navbar there but i don't need to cuz I use the floating button all the time. That build prop command works for me, I've tried that earlier but i choose the immersive mode because if Assistive touch crases (which never happened till now) I can use the navbar as backup. The command you're using is right, I don't know what's the issue but you can reset your device and then try if it works.
So someone else mentioned this idea in another thread but I thought it was a great question/idea that deserved it's own Q&A thread.
Is there a way (preferably without root) to get the nav bar invisible (like in immersive mode) but fully functional?
By this I mean not like immersive mode where you swipe up to make the bar appear, but rather the bar would be there all the time and the buttons work, it would simply be invisible (both the bar and buttons). It's not hard to tap in the general area of the 3 buttons. For this to really work, it would have to overlay all apps and what not such that it appeared as if it wasn't there - like immersive mode - (even though it actually was).
Would be even better than immersive mode in my opinion. Anyway, just thought I'd ask. Thanks!
byproxy said:
So someone else mentioned this idea in another thread but I thought it was a great question/idea that deserved it's own Q&A thread.
Is there a way (preferably without root) to get the nav bar invisible (like in immersive mode) but fully functional?
By this I mean not like immersive mode where you swipe up to make the bar appear, but rather the bar would be there all the time and the buttons work, it would simply be invisible (both the bar and buttons). It's not hard to tap in the general area of the 3 buttons. For this to really work, it would have to overlay all apps and what not such that it appeared as if it wasn't there - like immersive mode - (even though it actually was).
Would be even better than immersive mode in my opinion. Anyway, just thought I'd ask. Thanks!
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Download Custom Navigation Bar. Then you just need to grant permission via ADB and you can make the navbar buttons invisible. That's what I've done. No Root needed.
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Download Custom Navigation Bar. Then you just need to grant permission via ADB and you can make the navbar buttons invisible. That's what I've done. No Root needed.
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Would you mind posting a screenshot?
RoccoN4 said:
Download Custom Navigation Bar. Then you just need to grant permission via ADB and you can make the navbar buttons invisible. That's what I've done. No Root needed.
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cool app for quickly adjusting immersive mode, but it doesn't actually do what im looking for.
the option to make nav buttons doesn't work the way im asking for since the nav bar is still visible... just blank. i dont want the bar taking up space.
basically what im looking for is an invisible, overlayed, nav bar in all apps.
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cool app for quickly adjusting immersive mode, but it doesn't actually do what im looking for.
the option to make nav buttons doesn't work the way im asking for since the nav bar is still visible... just blank. i dont want the bar taking up space.
basically what im looking for is an invisible, overlayed, nav bar in all apps.
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I see. Ok also download navigation bar hider from the play store. This to needs a simple adb command to grant permissions. Use both the apps together. With this app, you can hide the navbar through out the whole system or on an app per app basis. Add the invisible navbar icons from the first app as well.
Hmm sounds interesting..subscribing to see if somebody gets it working...I don't have my Pixel yet to try this