Is there a way to hide the system/navigation bar in Android ICS

Question

I\'d like to extend the discussion regarding hiding of the system/navigation bar at the bottom of the screen on Android Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0 and up) tablet devices.

Answer 1

on rooted devices, i use the following adb command

adb shell pm disable com.android.systemui

to hide navigation bar permanently. To show it again, run

adb shell pm enable com.android.systemui

so far it's working fine for me