how to programmatically remove gps blinking icon from status bar in android (or make it never blink)?

Question

In my android application which uses GPS, I have UI elemnts that should blink permanently. I was told after a couple of pilot runs that the blinking GPS icon, i.e. when GPS is actually trying to get a fix, steals completely unnecessary bit of user's attention from the main UI.

Is there a way to remove the GPS antenna icon from the status bar programmatically from within the application? Or, alternatively, make it never blink?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You could hide the Status Bar altogether:

http://blog.thaichaiguy.com/1600/android-how-to-hide-the-status-bar-and-title-bar/

Answer 2

This is outside of the scope of the SDK and not possible.