You can definitely go fullscreen and have an action bar, you just need to make a theme for this.
That said... really, why? Please don't. It is freaking annoying when applications hide the status bar for no good reason except they think they are oh-so-important, and every time I want to see if I still have a good network connection or what notifications I have I need to leave the app. I hate this. And I really don't think it makes sense to do this when you are going to have an action bar anyway. Also, as far as not knowing exactly what the action bar will do... that is the whole point of it, there are lots of things it does to make its UI work across a wide variety of device screens, so you don't have to. Avoiding the action bar because of this is really just shooting yourself in the foot. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Royston <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark, > Generally I would agree with you and if I were starting again would > probably avoid menu/preferences. Unfortunately this would not be a good > choice at this stage in my project. The issues I have with the ActionBar > are to do with inconsistency and uncertainty. Depending on the size of the > device I may or may not get a menu icon on the ActionBar. It is asserted > that if there is not a menu icon on the Action bar there will be one > somewhere else but this troubles me. On some devices I would wish to get > rid of a Status bar but you cannot go Fullscreen and still have an > ActionBar it would seem. > > Again thanks for you feedback, very much appreciated. > > Regards > > Roy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
