How to Hide System Navigation Bar in Tablets?

Question

At my Tablet, it has following bar to control back, home etc. (I don\'t know the correct name, status bar? control bar? Action bar? or other)

In program, it use foll

Answer 1

Since the system bar is used to navigate in android there is not an easy way to achieve this, you can dissable/dim the controls:

View v = findViewById(R.id.view_id);
v.setSystemUiVisibility(View.STATUS_BAR_HIDDEN);

But you can get the size of the screen without the systembar (not sure from what version, I think 3.1)

Method rawW = Display.class.getMethod("getRawWidth");
Method rawH = Display.class.getMethod("getRawHeight");
int width = (Integer)mGetRawW.invoke(dp);
int height = (Integer)mGetRawH.invoke(dp);

If your app has root access there is also a way to achieve it: http://ppareit.github.com/HideBar/