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<h2>This lesson teaches you to</h2>
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  <li><a href="#40">Hiding the Navigation Bar on 4.0 and Higher</a></li>
  <li><a href="#behind">Make Content Appear Behind the Navigation Bar</a></li>
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<h2>You should also read</h2>

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    <li>
        <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html">Action Bar</a> API Guide
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="{@docRoot}design/index.html">
        Android Design Guide
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<p>This lesson describes how to hide the navigation bar, which was introduced in
Android 4.0 (API level 14).</p>

<p>Even though this lesson focuses on hiding the
navigation bar, you should design your app to hide the status bar
at the same time, as described in <a href="status.html">Hiding the Status Bar</a>.
Hiding the navigation and status bars (while still keeping them readily accessible)
lets the content use the entire display space, thereby providing a more immersive
user experience. </p>

<img src="{@docRoot}images/training/navigation-bar.png"
  alt="system bars">
<p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 1.</strong> Navigation bar.</p>



<h2 id="40">Hide the Navigation Bar on 4.0 and Higher</h2>

<p>You can hide the navigation bar on Android 4.0 and higher using the
{@link android.view.View#SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION} flag. This snippet hides both
the navigation bar and the status bar:</p>
<pre>View decorView = getWindow().getDecorView();
// Hide both the navigation bar and the status bar.
int uiOptions = View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION
              | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN;
decorView.setSystemUiVisibility(uiOptions);</pre>

<p>Note the following:</p>

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  <li>With this approach, touching anywhere on the screen causes the navigation bar (and
  status bar) to reappear and remain visible. The user interaction causes the flags to be
  be cleared.</li>
<li>Once the flags have been cleared, your app needs to reset them if you
want to hide the bars again. See <a href="visibility.html">Responding to UI Visibility Changes</a> for a
discussion of how to listen for UI visibility changes so that your app can
respond accordingly.</li>

<li>Where you set the UI flags makes a difference. If you hide the system bars in your activity's
 {@link android.app.Activity#onCreate onCreate()} method and the user presses Home, the system bars will
 reappear. When the user reopens the activity, {@link android.app.Activity#onCreate onCreate()}
won't get called, so the system bars will remain visible. If you want system UI changes to
persist as the user navigates in and out of your activity, set UI flags in
{@link android.app.Activity#onResume onResume()}
or {@link android.view.Window.Callback#onWindowFocusChanged onWindowFocusChanged()}.</li>

  <li>The method {@link android.view.View#setSystemUiVisibility setSystemUiVisibility()} only
  has an effect if the view you call it from is visible.</li>
  <li>Navigating away from the view causes flags
  set with {@link android.view.View#setSystemUiVisibility setSystemUiVisibility()}
  to be cleared.</li>
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<h2 id="behind">Make Content Appear Behind the Navigation Bar</h2>
<p>On Android 4.1 and higher, you can set your application's content to appear behind
the navigation bar, so that the content doesn't resize as the navigation bar hides and
shows. To do this, use
{@link android.view.View#setSystemUiVisibility setSystemuiVisibility(SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_HIDE_NAVIGATION)}.
You may also need to use
{@link android.view.View#SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE} to help your app maintain a
stable layout.</p>

<p>When you use this approach, it becomes your responsibility to ensure that critical parts
of your app's UI don't end up getting covered by system bars. For more
discussion of this topic, see the <a href="status.html#behind">
Hiding the Status Bar</a> lesson.</p>