[davilla]

Ok, seems several players know how to do this, we should too. So here's a bounty. you get your name listed in the commit
The idea is hide the nav bar when we launch so we playback in the full screen. Bonus points for audio show when someone touches near the bottom

Gentleman, start your google search engines.


EDIT:
This issue is close to being resolve but bugs are being sorted out and the code cleaned up.
See -> https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/2091

[Koying]

Hehe, was on my TODO to have a look after seeing some player do this

[Koying]

I suppose you mean the ICS+ bar, BTW. It's different than the GB one, I think.

[kemonine96]

I looked into this awhile ago (back in August) with TheUni and I confirmed hiding the status/button bars was working fine under 2.3, but it was broken on 3.0+. The fun part is the 3.x naming is different than 4.0+ if memory serves.

I managed to find some bits that may help on 4.0+ in my "things to look at again":

Code:

in onConfigChanged

+  AConfiguration *config = NULL //AConfiguration_new();
+  AConfiguration_fromAssetManager(config, m_activity->assetManager);
+  AConfiguration_setNavHidden(config, ACONFIGURATION_NAVHIDDEN_YES);
+  AConfiguration_setKeysHidden(config, ACONFIGURATION_KEYSHIDDEN_YES);

[coredalae]

mjea, guess he means both the button bar and the notification bar in 4.0.

Great work btw so far, first build that got full hd to play on my nexus 7!

[davilla]

in onConfigChanged ? we have no onConfigChanged in xbmc code

[kemonine96]

in onConfigChanged ? we have no onConfigChanged in xbmc code

It was shorthand. Method that I believe my notes refer to is

xbmc/android/activity/XBMCApp.cpp:onConfigurationChanged()

[davilla]

hehe, onConfigurationChanged never gets called

[kemonine96]

hehe, onConfigurationChanged never gets called

That explains some of the problem previously. Where would you add the code? StartActivty / onCreateWindow / other?

[davilla]

I tried all over, OnResume was last, it just ignored me Also I did a google search on "ACONFIGURATION_NAVHIDDEN_YES", 68 results and all were includes. Seems no one uses this at all

[davilla]

Oh I should also say, nexus7 running jb.

[kemonine96]

I tried all over, OnResume was last, it just ignored me Also I did a google search on "ACONFIGURATION_NAVHIDDEN_YES", 68 results and all were includes. Seems no one uses this at all

Well then... That leaves a JNI approach...

[manxam]

Isn't it just a call to view.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION during XBMC start and then onTouchEvent set View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_VISIBLE again?

Granted, I haven't taken a look at XBMC's android code to see what your doing and my android-fu is quite weak

[kemonine96]

That is what I meant by a JNI approach, but looking at the AndroidManifest.xml it looks like that approach may not work. The manifest already has the android:theme setup for full screen + no bars.

@davilla Have you tried the SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_* approach?

[davilla]

Not yet, next on the list I guess. I can't believe this is something no one else has done. Must be some deep dark android secret and we need the magic handshake to solve it. Ok game on, we will find it and expose it for all to see and use in their own code