For those who are familiar with technology, mobile phones and updates to operating systems such as Android, you may feel that navigation buttons are unnecessary. Therefore, today we will show you how to put full screen and hide navigation buttons on Android without rooting your device.
Although they are very simple to use, the navigation buttons occupy a space on the device screen that could be used for optimal use of it. You will see that hiding them is very easy, the only thing you will need to download is an application called GMD Immersive.
What is GMD Immersive?
It is an application that facilitates the elimination of the navigation and status bars on our mobile. It is not heavy at all and its use is very simple, just a few touches on the screen to achieve the objective. Its download is completely free, it is available in Spanish and it weighs only 1.34 MB.
In addition to having the option to put full screen and hide navigation buttons on Android, it has many other options to customize the screen of our mobile according to our taste, (however, aesthetic customizations are not free). If you want to personalize your mobile, another option is to create your own theme so that your Android phone is unique.
How to download GMD Immersive?
We can make use of an application store like Aptoide, since we will not get it in the Play Store. In case you didn’t know, there are multiple alternatives to the Play Store to download applications, and downloading through this means is totally safe and free of harmful files. The first thing we must do is enter Aptoide, for this we must search for it in the google browser and download it.
Having this application store installed, we enter it and look for GMD Immersive in your browser, to later press the download button and wait for it to be done until it reaches 100%.
This process will not take more than a few minutes or even seconds, depending on the speed of the Internet. Once the installation of GMD Immersive is finished, we open the application to verify that the download has been carried out correctly.
How to put full screen and hide navigation buttons on Android with GMD Immersive?
Having the application open, the first thing we see is a series of options such as: General, Trigger, Applications (PRO), and finally Upgrade. There is also a kind of on / off button in the upper left corner of the screen. To activate the application we must press this button.
Next to this we can see 3 figures that allude to what you can customize with this application: enlarge the screen of our mobile, to hide the upper part where notifications appear or leave it visible and the option to modify both bars, both the upper like the bottom. Keep in mind that there are other ways to zoom in on your mobile screen.
In any case, when entering the “General” option, we find that several features of this upper bar can be customized.
We can show or hide the notifications in it, as well as their icons. You can also configure the application so that it remains active as soon as the mobile is turned on.
We can activate and deactivate any of these options by clicking on the small box that is shown next to the option. When a check mark is displayed, it is because the function is active.
And that’s how simple it is to put the full screen on our mobile and hide the navigation buttons on Android without rooting the device. Although it sounds quite complicated, having the appropriate tools to do it (as in this case was the GMD Immersive application) it becomes an easy and quick goal to achieve.
Now you can enjoy the optimal use of your device’s screen space without any inconvenience. And this is not the only thing you can change to your phone to make the most of it. For example, did you know that you can change the font of letters on your Android device? It is as feasible as putting the full screen and hiding the navigation buttons without ROOT.