SIGHT... THank you .... [?]...

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Sebastian Tomaszewski
> <stomasze101...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > As we know that the Bottom Status Bar in the Android Honeycomb takes
> lots of
> > real-estate on the Tablet screen, since this is the case and one of my
> > applications that I am creating needs that space, is there someway to
> hide
> > it without ROOTING the device?
>
> No.
>
> > I research a lot on this subject and I haven't found any solutions that
> I am
> > looking for and at the same time I don't understand why there isn't way
> to
> > do that now (hide it, shrink it, move it, whatever) ...
>
> Because users need to be able to control their devices, and the
> control buttons on tablets are in the system bar.
>
> > What I understand
> > is that if some people will remove that completely, the users will be
> stuck
> > in that program and the only way to get out is to restart the device...At
> > the same time I would like to argue that the developer should know
> > better...
>
> Malware authors say the same thing.
>
> > Does anyone know if this will be an
> > option in the near future without ROOTING the device?
>
> I will be stunned if it is ever an option for developers to attack
> users this way. Users might have options for getting rid of the bar,
> and the OS (on its own or via modded ROMs) might switch to some other
> model where the bar is only sporadically visible.
>
> > If so, does anyone
> > know how of the near future that is going to be, because I am really on a
> > tight deadline here?
>
> Even if Android 4.1/5.0/whatever the J release is were to add this
> feature, it will be late 2013 before a preponderance of devices runs
> that version of Android or higher. That would not seem to fit with any
> likely definition of "tight deadline".
>
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