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ananthb
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Default Q: Possible workaround to softkey apps?

If we currently had access to the notification bar, we wouldn't need softkey apps, right?

My question is: Is there something we can edit that reports a resolution/size less than fullscreen (a size that will show the bottom bar)?

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I'd like to second this inquiry. If somebody could work their Wizarding Awesome Sauce then I would be much obliged.
 
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I don't have any coding experience at all but if I understand this correctly we're looking for two distinct screens within one LCD, both part of the same Android OS, both able to talk to each other, both able to control each other. Essentially something along the lines of a Windows status bar with the start button and everything else.

I'd say this is definitively doable, what is going to present a huge, maybe impossible challenge, is that software written for actual computers takes the Windows bar in account when maximizing the screen. Software that covers the whole scren, such as games, take in account two other constants, the Windows key and CTRL+ALT+DEL. Since we don't have these constant we're stuck with what we've got... and the NC isn't a massively mainstream device to prompt someone to get to work.
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