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Help Needed With Android Navigation Bar Not Hiding Creates Problem In Landscape Mode

12/23/2017 10:56 AM

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Help Needed With Android Navigation Bar Not Hiding Creates Problem In Landscape Mode Modified By on 12/23/2017 11:15:23 AM

My wife and I recently retired our loved Google Project Fi Nexus 6 phones and switch to Moto X4s. Now in iFly in landscape mode all the activation of the iFly buttons are shifted to left of the actual iFly button.

This problem seems to be related to Android navigation bar no longer hiding. The Nexus 7 and Nexus 6 did not have this problem, and I can only guess it is because the Android Navigation Bar is still hiding for them.

PLEASE HELP.

Note:. The Android Navigation bar does not hide in portrait mode either.

12/23/2017 2:34 PM

Brian

Joined: 9/7/2011

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Re: Help Needed With Android Navigation Bar Not Hiding Creates Problem In Landscape Mode

Thank you for reporting this!

This appears to be an Android 7.1 "feature". I don't have Android 7.1 here to test with (yet). What happens if you turn the device 180 degrees (upside down) - does the droid navigation bar then move to the right-side of screen?

Until now, AFAIK, Android has *always* put this bar to the right-side, which is why it works correctly on all devices except Android 7.1. I'm guessing that others might be having this issue too, and I'll need to address it.

But if it "fixes" the issue just to rotate your device 180 degrees (turn it upside down), then at least we have an easy work around.

Here's a link where the author describes this Android 7.1 "fix" which is messing us up.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/10/...ar-doesnt-move/

Brian Knox, Sr Software Engineer

12/23/2017 9:10 PM

VIN2020

Joined: 3/25/2014

Posts: 141

Re: Help Needed With Android Navigation Bar Not Hiding Creates Problem In Landscape Mode Modified By VIN2020 on 12/23/2017 9:14:41 PM

You have surprised me. You are correct rotating by 180deg does move it to the right side, which makes the buttons useful (iFly basically not useful with Navigation bar on left side).

My desired operation would to have the precious display realestate be used for an Ifly map then waste it on a static navigation bar.

Second issue is the way I route power in the plane to the phone forces the navigation bar on the left. Ugggg......

Thank you for responding, and hopefully we can overcome this less than ideal Android feature.

12/24/2017 6:45 AM

Cobra

Joined: 4/20/2011

Posts: 2602

Re: Help Needed With Android Navigation Bar Not Hiding Creates Problem In Landscape Mode Modified By Cobra on 12/24/2017 6:46:47 AM

Blake, could you try again to explain the problem? Are you saying that if you try to press the iFly "Menu" button, it acts like you actually pressed the "Map Mode" button, etc?

If that's what's happening, then out of curiosity, what happens when you press the black area to the left of the iFly "Menu" button (right below the Android "square" button in the screenshot where the Android bar is on the left)? (Does nothing happen, do you get the iFly Menu, or does something else happen?)

12/24/2017 7:06 AM

VIN2020

Joined: 3/25/2014

Posts: 141

Re: Help Needed With Android Navigation Bar Not Hiding Creates Problem In Landscape Mode Modified By VIN2020 on 12/24/2017 7:12:58 AM

Yes, when I touch the "Menu" button it responds as if I touched "Map mode". All the buttons are shifted like that, including map touches are also shifted.

Touching in the black Navigation bar immediately left of "Menu" does nothing. So in further investigation, I realize now the "Menu" button is not even selectable.

Note: Should I change the thread title based on what I have more accurately learned?

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