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Feature request: hide status bar and navigation bar in focus mode
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Description

Your app is absolutely amazing!
You have a nice feature for a "concentrated reading mode"
That cancel the appearance of the lower tool bar.

But can you please add an option to cancel also the upper system bar
( The android info of time, date etc) - meaning a full screen mode.

A lot of reading apps has this option and it will
be amazing if you can add it.

Please see the 3 pictures I added to this email.

  1. Wikipedia full-screen mode - se the remarks on the picture.
  2. A full-screen mode using a third party app ( Totally full-screen )
  3. The app I used for a Totally full-screen.

Using a third party app isn't that convenient and it has it's bugs.
And the reason I'm asking for the feature is because it's very very very
helpful once you intensity:))

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Screenshot_20230301_181049_Wikipedia.jpg (2×1 px, 1 MB)

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Event Timeline

Dbrant renamed this task from Request to update excisting feature: concentrated reading mode to Feature request: hide status bar and navigation bar in focus mode.Mar 10 2023, 4:13 PM
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We'll keep this task in the Garage for tracking purposes, but we won't be able to do it at the present time, because hiding the status bar and navigation bar are very nonstandard UX practices, and will therefore likely be very inconsistent across different versions of Android, and different device manufacturers. This would become a source of bugs.