How to make my app full screen on Galaxy Tab

Question

I\'ve been trying everything I can think of to get my app to display full screen on the Galaxy Tab.

Basically, it works like the Lunar Lander example app that comes

Answer 1

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" />

or an other version number is missing in your manifest

Answer 2

Unless you support SDK versions that are at least 4, i.e.:
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4"/>,

you will have to do the following explicitly:

<supports-screens android:smallScreens="true"
    android:normalScreens="true"
    android:largeScreens="true"
    android:anyDensity="true" />

Answer 3

Give this one in your manifest file:

<supports-screens android:smallScreens="true"
    android:normalScreens="true"
    android:largeScreens="true"
    android:anyDensity="true" />

Surely it will work.

Answer 4

If you set your target sdk level to anything less than 9, then support for extra-large screens is assumed to be false. If you set targetSdkVersion=9 in the manifest, then xlarge support is assumed to be true. See the documentation on Supporting Multiple Screens, in particular the description of compatibility mode.

Answer 5

another way to do is creating a xml called styles.xml in res/values

define a style:

<style name="Theme.FullScreen" parent="android:Theme">
        <item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    </style>

later in the manifest, tell android what activity must be in fullscreen setting the style above:

<activity android:name=".activity.NewSearchBrowserActivity" android:theme="@style/Theme.FullScreen" android:screenOrientation="landscape"></activity>

in this way you make a reusable theme what can be applied to any activity.

Answer 6

you can add this exactly under

  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

of the activity you want to be full screen.

 requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
 getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, 
            WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);