How to hide navigation bar in Android app?

Question

I was wondering how I could hide the navigation bar in an Android application?

I know how to hide it initially, but as soon as I touch the screen it pops back up. I

Answer 1

In your activity's onCreate method:

this.getWindow()
    .setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
              WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);