Hide Navigation Bar

Manuel Wrage

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Unsupported as of Android 11
This is app does not work on Android 11 and above because Google removed the ability
for apps to do so. Further information is provided here: https://bit.ly/3z62OBn

Warning
This app is meant for advanced users only. You have to use a PC to grant the WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS permission with ADB.
Note that ADB simply is a developers tool and it will not void the warranty unlike root.
If you're device is rooted you can grant the permission with just one click.


Finally get rid of the "Navigation Bar"

You want to use one of those cool new gesture navigation apps to use your device in a futuristic way?
Or you want to gain a little more screen space?
But you cannot get rid of the "Navigation Bar"?

With "Hide Navigation Bar" it's possible to hide your "Navigation Bar"


Automation Apps Support
You can send broadcasts to "Hide Navigation Bar" with your favorite automation apps like "Tasker"
to hide the "Navigation Bar" only when you want it.


Android ADB PC instructions
1 - Enable Developer Mode in the Android settings.
2 - Enable USB Debugging
3 - Setup ADB on your PC
4 - Run the following adb command to grant the permission:
adb shell pm grant com.ivianuu.hidenavbar android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS

To restore the navigation keys disable the app or run this command:
adb shell wm overscan 0,0,0,0


How to install ADB
Gadget Hacks - https://bit.ly/3uT9iAo
Lifehacker - https://bit.ly/3x8LQAN
Xda developers - https://bit.ly/3x40usM


Links

Reddit:
https://bit.ly/3comOFJ

Ratings and reviews

Hides the nav bar and was fairly easy to set up without a root. Like the quick setting to toggle it. For a perfect app it would provide options for when the nav bar pops back up (for example in the 'recents' screen) or maybe a gesture to toggle the nav bar. Edit: Will no longer open. Navigation bar is stuck off now, even when I uninstall and reinstall the app. Any instructions on how to restore the navigation bar are lost because the app won't open. Edit2: update fixed app, thank you!

This is the only app I could find (after going through many) that hides the navigation bar while letting you do swipe gestures without having to swipe twice, so it retains the stock functionality. I paid $1.99 to get the quick settings feature but the dev deserved it because I couldn't find an app that has this exact feature. There are plenty of immersive mode apps that do almost the same thing, but they require you to swipe twice which isn't what I was looking for.

To everyone who says you need root: NO! YOU DON'T. Using adb is different than root, and does not require root. But it does require having some knowledge about computers. Get a clue before you give this guy a hard time. This app seems to work by modifying an overscan setting, which gets the job done on the navigation bar but it also makes other things (like Google Drive share window) go beneath the bottom...

What's new

• Bug fixes