I've just recently rooted my galaxy nexus and I've downloaded a few applications to try and hide or even replace the navigational/system/soft bar that's found at the bottom of android OS. You can find this system bar on other skins of android devices.
The system bar was a real pain in the arse for me. I would lose screen real estate for the sake of having home, back and recent buttons at the bottom when it can easily be replace or hidden by an app from the Google play store. For most of the applications and tweaks found on the Google play store require root. Some of them don't require root if you're running ice cream sandwich or below. I'm not sure why this is, jellybean must be much more secure with the APIs with system controls.
GMD hide soft keys is all right but it doesn't seem to work very well and when it crashes, it leaves me with no system bar so I have to reboot.
Hide bottom bar is a paid app from the play store so I haven't had the luxury of getting that yet and test it but I've another app that seems to go the job just find.
Its called full screen, it hides the system bar with ease and it gives you hot corners and you're able to customize to the way you like it. You're given a bottom right button which is set to home button by default and the bottom left set to back by default. You've got different actions as well, hold the home button and it restores the original system bar and hold the bar button and it shows recent apps. You can also swipe to show a pie menu with a number of quick actions so you can get into your favourite application even quicker.
I've been talking with the developer, he's very nice and he recently updated the app to add the swipe to fill function in recent apps menu.
I originally wanted the pie controls that are found on the paranoid android ROM. You can swipe from the left, right and the bottom to access the home, back, and loads of other buttons.
I got the pie controls I wanted from lmt launcher that I found from an article on xda developers but it came with huge battery consumption so I stuck with full screen.
I will be hopefully doing more blogs and talking about technology.
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