How To Make My App Full Screen On Galaxy Tab

I've been trying everything I can think of to get my app to display full screen on the Galaxy Tab. Basically, it works like the Lunar Lander example app that comes with the Android

Solution 1:

If you set your target sdk level to anything less than 9, then support for extra-large screens is assumed to be false. If you set targetSdkVersion=9 in the manifest, then xlarge support is assumed to be true. See the documentation on Supporting Multiple Screens, in particular the description of compatibility mode.

Solution 2:

another way to do is creating a xml called styles.xml in res/values

define a style:

<style name="Theme.FullScreen" parent="android:Theme">
        <item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    </style>

later in the manifest, tell android what activity must be in fullscreen setting the style above:

<activity android:name=".activity.NewSearchBrowserActivity" android:theme="@style/Theme.FullScreen" android:screenOrientation="landscape"></activity>

in this way you make a reusable theme what can be applied to any activity.

Solution 3:

Ted mentioned XLargeSceens, the Galaxy Tab is running 2.2 and therefore doesn't have the xlargeScreens attribute as it was added in 2.3; Because the upcoming generation of tablets will have 3.0 and XlargeScreens you are going to want to use it anyway (and compile against 2.3/3.0)

In your Manifest you need to declare support for all reasonable screen sizes and provide the correct set of resources

<supports-screens 
    android:smallScreens="false" 
    android:largeScreens="true"
    android:xlargeScreens="true"  
    android:normalScreens="true" 
    android:anyDensity="true"
/>

Solution 4:

Unless you support SDK versions that are at least 4, i.e.:
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4"/>,

you will have to do the following explicitly:

<supports-screens android:smallScreens="true"
    android:normalScreens="true"
    android:largeScreens="true"
    android:anyDensity="true" />

Solution 5:

 public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
    getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

This is working fine for me... try this