Fullscreen Activity in Android?

Question

How do I make an activity full screen? I mean without the notification bar. Any ideas?

Answer 1

To make your activity full screen do this:

    // add following lines before setContentView
    // to hide toolbar
                if(getSupportActionBar()!=null)
                    getSupportActionBar().hide();
    //to hide status bar
                getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
                    WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

This will hide the toolbar and status bar.

But In some case, you may want to show status bar with a transparent background, in that case, do this:

// add following lines before setContentView
// to hide toolbar
if(getSupportActionBar()!=null)
   getSupportActionBar().hide();
// to make status bar transparent
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_NO_LIMITS, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_NO_LIMITS);

Some other alternate to hide toolbar instead of getSupportActionBar().hide():

1. Remove toolbar by changing the app theme's parent: