How to remove button bar at the bottom screen

Question

I am building custom image.I going through android source, i want to get rid off bottom softkey button bar in android, Can some one please direct me to source file to change ?

Answer 1

To enable / disable them, as far as I know you simply have to edit the build.prop:

qemu.hw.mainkeys=0 (show on screen buttons) 

or

qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 (disable on screen buttons) 

If the line does not exist in your build.prop, add it at the bottom.

Answer 2

The easiest way to take a screen shot without the bottom navigation bar is to use an emulator (AVD) and edit its config file.

Go to .android/avd/virtual-device.avd

Then edit the config.ini:

hw.mainKeys=yes hw.keyboard=yes 

Both should be set to "yes"

In order to be able to see the bar again, set them back to "no".