Hiding Home and Back button in Android

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ik024 picture ik024 · Feb 7, 2014 · Viewed 51.7k times · Source

I would like my app to hide the Home and Back button which is show at bottom of activity.

I was able to hide the title bar but I am not able to do for Home and Back button.

Is it possible to do it?

Answer

Yuichi Araki picture Yuichi Araki · Feb 7, 2014

Starting from Android 4.4 KitKat, you can use "immersive" full-screen mode. Here's the detail and some sample codes.

https://developer.android.com/training/system-ui/immersive.html

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