Kindle Fire bottom bar state detection

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January 13, 2012
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Hi,

Is there any way to detect if Kindle Fire's bottom bar is activated (shown) or not? Or even somehow form the application manually show/hide it without directly tapping on it. I know how to control Home, Back. Menu, Search buttons, but need to cotrol or at least know bottom bars state.

Developing platform is Flash CS 5.5 - >Adobe Air 2.7 (preinstalled on Kindle Fire)

Thanks in advance.

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gMirianAuthor

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To say truth I'm not worring about temporary popup, instead I need while application runs in some cases always show bottom bar (just for easy navigation, so user can direcrtly tap ex: Back button without tapping on bottom bar first), now I'm testing situation; switching application from FULL_SCREEN to NORMAL state, this might definitelly help, anyway thanks guys, hope I'll find best solution soon

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gMirianAuthor

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Still can't find solution, is there any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

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Anonymous

I agree with Colin, don't worry about it, its a temporary pop up, if you are running in normal mode as opposed to full screen that bar is a permanent fixture and you can't add content past it anyway but when it pops up you just let it be, since the user is intentionally hitting the pull up window on the bottom of the screen, its much like the pull down task bar on iOS it comes in and covers your whole screen, obviously the user is trying to do something outside your app so let them. Can't imagine why you would need to account for that.

Sorry I know that post was probably useless.

Colin Holgate

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Look to see if you get a resize event, and check the stage.stageHeight.

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gMirianAuthor

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I just checked, in Full Screen/Landscape mode stage.stageHeight is always 580px (there isn't RESIZE event, I checked on ENTER_FRAME), doesn't changes on Bottom Bar/Status Bar appearance

Colin Holgate

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It is possible that there isn't a resize event, because the expanded bar lays over the top of your app. So, make sure nothing vital is down that low, and don't worry too much about it. It will be small again in a moment, when the user collapses it.

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