Hi, Thanks Mark, for your clarification.
The status bar needs to be hidden when I am browsing a web page(the page which I am viewing has to be full screen). Since I am using WebView, this is not possible. Are there any other solutions? Ashok Jeevan +91 9895401278 On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote: > Ashok Jeevan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am creating a WebView which is being launched from an activity named > > StartUpActivity.java. > > > > My intention is to hide the status bar at the top when the WebView comes > > to the front, so that the WebView remains full screen (no status bar). > > > > I can hide the status bar when I launch an activity using this code : > > > getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN > > ); > > > > Is there any way to hide the status bar when using WebView? > > WebView is not an activity. WebView is a widget. Hence, your existing > code will work for an activity that hosts a WebView. A better approach, > though, is to use: > > android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" > > in your <activity> element in your manifest. > > If, by "I am creating a WebView which is being launched...", you really > mean that you are launching the built-in Browser application, then you > cannot affect the status bar, since that is not your application. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Consulting: http://commonsware.com/consulting > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
