I'm currently running Team EOS' most recent build on my N4, and I'm really enjoying it. I've got the navigation bar hidden on boot with LMT installed with pie. This setup is just about perfect, but one issue I'm having is that, in landscape orientation, Swiftkey doesn't extend to the end of the screen. There is a gap where the navigation bar would normally be. The stock keyboard doesn't behave the same way, covering the full screen. Anyone know a way to make this a little more visually appealing?
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The bottom of my N7 screen cracked but the device is still very usable. The bottom half inch will not respond to touch, but everything above that point works just fine! I'm hoping for a way to expand my navigation bar size, or bump it up to leave my screen blank under it.. Any help will be greatly appreciated and I have some $ in PayPal as a thanks. Any help as in a ROM that allows a Nav Bar Resize.. A way to move it to the top of my tablet screen... Some way I can put a google search bar under it or anything to waste that space. Thanks for ideas, hoping to save my N7 and keep it usable without having to rotate it everytime I need that portion of my screen!
Adreneline420 said:
The bottom of my N7 screen cracked but the device is still very usable. The bottom half inch will not respond to touch, but everything above that point works just fine! I'm hoping for a way to expand my navigation bar size, or bump it up to leave my screen blank under it.. Any help will be greatly appreciated and I have some $ in PayPal as a thanks. Any help as in a ROM that allows a Nav Bar Resize.. A way to move it to the top of my tablet screen... Some way I can put a google search bar under it or anything to waste that space. Thanks for ideas, hoping to save my N7 and keep it usable without having to rotate it everytime I need that portion of my screen!
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I could have sworn I've seen navbar mods somewhere. You could always consider using PIE controls, however, if you want to remap them to the left/right screen edges.
Thanks for the quick reply. Pie Controls is a very useful work around for now. The app would be amazing if it let me choose exactly where on the screen I could pull up the navigation bar, but even without that option it is a great help!
I've seen some Mods but all of them seem to shrink the Bar, not enlarge it.
The reason I want to extend the stock navigation bar isn't just to be able to touch the buttons but it also pushes all opened apps, my home screen, etc up past that point that is cracked... So while playing a game or in my options menus I would still be able touch the bottom of my screen, just above the navigation bar (which I can't do now.) Basically, the top of the Bar is the bottom of my touch screen and it isn't high enough for me to use the entire screen =(
Adreneline420 said:
Thanks for the quick reply. Pie Controls is a very useful work around for now. The app would be amazing if it let me choose exactly where on the screen I could pull up the navigation bar, but even without that option it is a great help!
I've seen some Mods but all of them seem to shrink the Bar, not enlarge it.
The reason I want to extend the stock navigation bar isn't just to be able to touch the buttons but it also pushes all opened apps, my home screen, etc up past that point that is cracked... So while playing a game or in my options menus I would still be able touch the bottom of my screen, just above the navigation bar (which I can't do now.) Basically, the top of the Bar is the bottom of my touch screen and it isn't high enough for me to use the entire screen =(
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LMT Launcher is a pie control interface. It allows you to open from anywhere on the left or right and you can setup gestures as well with it to do the navbar functions. Look it up here on xda.
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I have an unrooted & stock TMo G2. I'd like to keep it unrooted and stock, for now. I use SwiftKey as my keyboard. With the bottom nav bar being on all the time, I find that I constantly end up tapping home or back when I'm going for the space bar or a letter on the bottom row. I switch out of whatever app I was in and usually end up launching another app (or two) in the process.
I don't want to hide the nav bar, so I was wondering if there's a keyboard out there that maybe adjusts the height between the bottom keys and the nav bar. I looked at some of the top ones in Google Play and they don't seem to have this feature, or I didn't look hard enough. An extra 1/8th or 1/4 of an inch would be fine for me.
Thanks in advance.
I couldn't agree more. I always had the same problem with my HTC One as well. One alternative (one that I don't like but perhaps you will) is undocking your SwiftKey. The new SwiftKey will allow you to move it off the bottom all around the screen and away from the navigation bar.
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Thought I'd share this w/ fellow N5 users who may be interested in yet another way to maximize screen real estate...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2659919
Check out my post (#81) if you want to see how I customized the app for my daily use, essentially replacing PIE and Nav Bar while in expanded desktop (not disabling nav bar entirely, but if you set the dimensions correctly, you'll rarely see it unless you need it).
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Thought I'd share this w/ fellow N5 users who may be interested in yet another way to maximize screen real estate...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2659919
Check out my post (#81) if you want to see how I customized the app for my daily use, essentially replacing PIE and Nav Bar while in expanded desktop (not disabling nav bar entirely, but if you set the dimensions correctly, you'll rarely see it unless you need it).
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you need to set the dimentions as small as possible because anywhere the nav layer is functional, NOTHING ELSE IS!!! For instance, on my keyboard the 1 and 0 keys (or Q and P keys) do NOT work. Any apps that have controls anywhere the "GLOW" is or would be if enabled, will be affected. Personally I think Nav Layer is more of a hinderance than a help.Nothing works on the edges of my phone where Nav Layer is. Frustrating
Hey guys, so I've followed a guide to get immersive mode all the time, just wanna say first of all that is awesome and that I regret not taking a look at it sooner, finally the 6.2" are actually 6.2 (I just thought it would have worked like ****); I was wondering if it's possible to extend immersive mode to when the keyboard is open, it works perfectly everywhere BUT when the keyboard is open.
Thank you!
I don't even know what immersive mode is? haha Where is the setting for that and what does it do?
Blaalad12 said:
I don't even know what immersive mode is? haha Where is the setting for that and what does it do?
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That would be the ability to hide the status bar as well as the navbar so that you can get the full size of the screen with nothing wasted. What I really liked is that you can choose either navbar or status bar or both although I ended up choosing both but still it's good to have the choice
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That would be the ability to hide the status bar as well as the navbar so that you can get the full size of the screen with nothing wasted. What I really liked is that you can choose either navbar or status bar or both although I ended up choosing both but still it's good to have the choice
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Where can this be toggled on? and if the navbar is invisible then how do you go back the homescreen/ back to the previous page?
Blaalad12 said:
Where can this be toggled on? and if the navbar is invisible then how do you go back the homescreen/ back to the previous page?
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You can see it by swiping up from the bottom and you can see the status bar by swiping down from the top. This is the guide I followed
https://android.gadgethacks.com/how...re-screen-real-estate-no-root-needed-0177297/
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You can see it by swiping up from the bottom and you can see the status bar by swiping down from the top. This is the guide I followed
https://android.gadgethacks.com/how...re-screen-real-estate-no-root-needed-0177297/
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Not quite the same thing, but if you want more screen real estate and don't want to full-on hide the status and / or nav bars, you can come close to "immersive" (and increase viewing area) by tweaking dpi in Developer Options, changing font / zoom in Display, and working with keyboard sizing--some discussion here https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/how-to/view-content-screen-t3594320 .
I tried the adb - immersive, and it works fine. Issue I had was that a couple of apps that I regularly use have their own app-specific nav bars at the bottom of their window, and swiping up to get the system nav bar with my fat fingers invariably interacted with the app's nav bar. Now, I use the higher dpi setting which yields a nicely larger viewing screen with much smaller status and nav bars.
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Issue I had has that a couple of apps that I regularly use have their own app-specific nav bars at the bottom of their window, and swiping up to get the system nav bar with my fat fingers invariably interacted with the app's nav bar. Now, I use the higher dpi setting which yields a nicely larger viewing screen with much smaller status and nav bars.
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I have (fortunately) none of these apps since I'm really loving this immersive mode, the dpi trick can work indeed, I had 560 ish set as min width, I still kept that even though I'm in immersive mode now but I'm really glad everything is working properly
The infinity screen is amazing to look at, and mods or substratum theme to hide navigation bar make it look super clean.
But it absolutely interferes with the typing experience.
Keyboard is located too low and reaching for keys at the bottom row like space bar, enter key, number pads require your thumbs to stretch more than natural finger placements.
I wish keyboard is placed a bit higher. Hate to say this... But like the one in iPhone X. But thankfully I heard Android is very customizable. Does anyone know if this is possible? I mainly use Google keyboard but I don't care what keyboard supports it.
Thanks all
binnkim said:
The infinity screen is amazing to look at, and mods or substratum theme to hide navigation bar make it look super clean.
But it absolutely interferes with the typing experience.
Keyboard is located too low and reaching for keys at the bottom row like space bar, enter key, number pads require your thumbs to stretch more than natural finger placements.
I wish keyboard is placed a bit higher. Hate to say this... But like the one in iPhone X. But thankfully I heard Android is very customizable. Does anyone know if this is possible? I mainly use Google keyboard but I don't care what keyboard supports it.
Thanks all
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Found out Samsung keyboard has that option.. nevermind but not too perfectly.