What is the simplest change that I can make to a new Blank Activity, as created by the latest version of Android Studio, to get the app to appear fullscreen?
I want to create a fullscreen Android application. I'm working with Android Studio. This post suggests that I add a line such as ...
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.NoActionBar.Fullscreen"
... to the AndroidManifest.xml file, as shown below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.lexogram.james.blackslate" >
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
<activity
android:name="com.lexogram.james.blackslate.MainActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.NoActionBar.Fullscreen">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
</manifest>
When I do this, the app compiles but it crashes on launch. If I remove the line, the app runs fine, but with the action bar and a title bar, as also noted by other users.
This is my first attempt at creating an Android app, so my app is hardly altered from the original Hello World example.
EDIT: I created a new project, and made just this one change to it. Here is an extract from the error log:
FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.lexogram.james.test/com.lexogram.james.test.MainActivity}: java.lang.IllegalStateException: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity.
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2669)...
NOTE: I am testing on a old Samsung SGH-T499Y, running Android 2.2 (Froyo)
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The answer is
Just add the following attribute to your current theme:
<item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
For example:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">@color/orange</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@android:color/holo_orange_dark</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
</style>
Update Answer I added android:windowIsTranslucent in case you have white screen in start of activity
just create new Style in values/styles.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
<!-- to hide white screen in start of window -->
<item name="android:windowIsTranslucent">true</item>
</style>
</resources>
from your AndroidManifest.xml add style to your activity
android:theme="@style/AppTheme"
to be like this
<activity android:name=".Splash"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
just do this in your manifest file in your activity tag
android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"
If you Checkout the current Android Studio. You could create a New Activity with the Full-screen template. If you Create such an Activity. You could look into the basic code that Android Studio uses to switch between full-screen and normal mode.
This is the code I found in there. With some minor tweaks I'm sure you'll get what you need.
public class FullscreenActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
private static final boolean AUTO_HIDE = true;
private static final int AUTO_HIDE_DELAY_MILLIS = 3000;
private static final int UI_ANIMATION_DELAY = 300;
private final Handler mHideHandler = new Handler();
private View mContentView;
private final Runnable mHidePart2Runnable = new Runnable() {
@SuppressLint("InlinedApi")
@Override
public void run() {
// Delayed removal of status and navigation bar
// Note that some of these constants are new as of API 16 (Jelly Bean)
// and API 19 (KitKat). It is safe to use them, as they are inlined
// at compile-time and do nothing on earlier devices.
mContentView.setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LOW_PROFILE
| View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN
| View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE
| View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_IMMERSIVE_STICKY
| View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_HIDE_NAVIGATION
| View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION);
}
};
private View mControlsView;
private final Runnable mShowPart2Runnable = new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
// Delayed display of UI elements
ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
if (actionBar != null) {
actionBar.show();
}
mControlsView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}
};
private boolean mVisible;
private final Runnable mHideRunnable = new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
hide();
}
};
private final View.OnTouchListener mDelayHideTouchListener = new View.OnTouchListener() {
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
if (AUTO_HIDE) {
delayedHide(AUTO_HIDE_DELAY_MILLIS);
}
return false;
}
};
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_fullscreen);
mVisible = true;
mControlsView = findViewById(R.id.fullscreen_content_controls);
mContentView = findViewById(R.id.fullscreen_content);
// Set up the user interaction to manually show or hide the system UI.
mContentView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
toggle();
}
});
// Upon interacting with UI controls, delay any scheduled hide()
// operations to prevent the jarring behavior of controls going away
// while interacting with the UI.
findViewById(R.id.dummy_button).setOnTouchListener(mDelayHideTouchListener);
}
@Override
protected void onPostCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onPostCreate(savedInstanceState);
// Trigger the initial hide() shortly after the activity has been
// created, to briefly hint to the user that UI controls
// are available.
delayedHide(100);
}
private void toggle() {
if (mVisible) {
hide();
} else {
show();
}
}
private void hide() {
// Hide UI first
ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
if (actionBar != null) {
actionBar.hide();
}
mControlsView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
mVisible = false;
// Schedule a runnable to remove the status and navigation bar after a delay
mHideHandler.removeCallbacks(mShowPart2Runnable);
mHideHandler.postDelayed(mHidePart2Runnable, UI_ANIMATION_DELAY);
}
@SuppressLint("InlinedApi")
private void show() {
// Show the system bar
mContentView.setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN
| View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_HIDE_NAVIGATION);
mVisible = true;
// Schedule a runnable to display UI elements after a delay
mHideHandler.removeCallbacks(mHidePart2Runnable);
mHideHandler.postDelayed(mShowPart2Runnable, UI_ANIMATION_DELAY);
}
private void delayedHide(int delayMillis) {
mHideHandler.removeCallbacks(mHideRunnable);
mHideHandler.postDelayed(mHideRunnable, delayMillis);
}
}
Now I went further to checkout how this could be done in a more simple fashion.
Making changes to the AppTheme style in your styles.xml file would be most helpful.
This changes all your activities to a Full Screen view.
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
If you want only some activities to look Full Screen, you could create a new AppTheme that extends your current app theme and include the above code in that new style that you created. This way, you just have to set style=yournewapptheme in the manifest of whichever activity you want to go Full Screen
Simply declare in styles.xml
<style name="AppTheme.Fullscreen" parent="AppTheme">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
</style>
Then use in menifest.xml
<activity
android:name=".activities.Splash"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme.Fullscreen">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
Chill Pill :)
you can do make App in FullScreen Mode form just one line code. i am using this in my code.
just set AppTheme -> Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar in your style.xml
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
It will work in all pages..
in my case all works fine. See in logcat. Maybe logcat show something that can help you to resolve your problem
Anyway you can try do it programmatically:
public class ActivityName extends Activity {
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// remove title
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
}
}
I recently had the exact same issue and benefitted from the following post as well (in addition to Rohit5k2's solution above):
In Step 3, MainActivity extends Activity instead of ActionBarActivity (as Rohit5k2 mentioned). Putting the NoTitleBar and Fullscreen theme elements into the correct places in the AndroidManifest.xml file is also very important (take a look at Step 4).
You can use the following codes to have a full page in android
Step 1 : Make theme in styles.xml section
<style name="AppTheme.Fullscreen" parent="AppTheme">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
Step 2 : Add theme on AndroidManifest.xml
<activity
android:name=“.Activity”
android:theme="@style/AppTheme.Fullscreen"/>
Step 3 : Java codes section
For example you can added following codes in to the onCreate() method.
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
Adding current working solution for 'FLAG_FULLSCREEN' is deprecated
Add the following to your theme in themes.xml
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
Worked perfectly for me.
Add these to Activity of your application.
Android JAVA
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN)
;
Android Kotlin
supportActionBar?.hide()
window.setFlags(
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN
)
According to this document, add the following code to onCreate
getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_IMMERSIVE_STICKY |
SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN | SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION |
SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE | SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_HIDE_NAVIGATION | SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN);
In onCreate call
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); // for hiding title
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
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