Hiding the Navigation Bar in Android Unity

March 23, 2015

Hiding the Navigation Bar in Android Unity

There a lots of way available to hide navigation bar from android apps, some are easy and some feels hard for newbies developers here today i am providing you some simple ways to hide navigation bar in android.

For unity users i got very easy to use unity free asset to hide navigation bar get this cool asset now.
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/21774

After this i hope your problem will solved but if you still need some inside detail to work in script so here are official guide on this.
https://developer.android.com/training/system-ui/immersive.html

The main code from that official guide is here

// This snippet hides the system bars.
private void hideSystemUI() {
    // Set the IMMERSIVE flag.
    // Set the content to appear under the system bars so that the content
    // doesn't resize when the system bars hide and show.
    mDecorView.setSystemUiVisibility(
            View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE
            | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_HIDE_NAVIGATION
            | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN
            | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION // hide nav bar
            | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN // hide status bar
            | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_IMMERSIVE);
}
// This snippet shows the system bars. It does this by removing all the flags
// except for the ones that make the content appear under the system bars.
private void showSystemUI() {
    mDecorView.setSystemUiVisibility(
            View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE
            | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_HIDE_NAVIGATION
            | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN);
}