Full-screen video playback on Android tablets

Question

I always knew, that true full-screen mode on Android tablets was impossible to achieve without rooting your device, but recently I acquired 4.3-based Nexus 7 2013 and I can clearly see YouTube and VLC hiding menu bar.

I won't pollute this question with code for obvious attempts of making my Activity full-screen programaticaly or via AndroidManifest.xml and simply ask, if anyone has idea of going full-screen on Android 4.3?

Answer 1

Since ICS, system navigation bar can be temporarily hidden using SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION flag.

In your activity:

getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION);