Change Navigation bar colors without root or extra apps/themes

[haksancan]

You can just use the hex code without converting to decimal. I just made it white with ffffffff and black with ff000000.

Nope it doesn't work on my phone.

Can you please try ffff0000 and see if it turns red?

 

[haksancan]

Because am little confusing ,can please someone tell me whats the value for black color ?
Thank you .

-16777216 is fully opaque black.

 

[m7ixalis]

@haksancan
Thank you I will test it later.
And it works very well ,thank you again .

Send from my galaxy s8

 

[themasv]

Transparency is possible by adding transparency value to beginning of hex number. It somewhat tricky to calculate because integers overflows and wraps around to negative values.

Formula is:
1. Add transparency value to beginning
2. Convert to decimal
3. Substract 4294967296 if it is greater than 2147483647

For example if you want color "34 bd 3c" and make it fully transparent you must prepend "ff" and the number becomes "ff 34 bd 3c". Convert it to decimal: 4281646396. Substract: 4281646396-4294967296=−13320900. So −13320900 is the value you want.

−13320900 just makes it white

 

[haksancan]

−13320900 just makes it white

-13320900 makes it green on my phone (see the screenshot)

First of all, my above calculation is slightly incorrect because I used "ff" as transparency value and said it is transparent even though it is indeed totally opaque. It must be 00 for transparent and ff for opaque. Using 00 makes the result 3456316 which is indeed white as you said. The reason it is white is because symbol color is white and you make the background totally transparent. So background color doesn't matter at all. On a white screen like the settings app you'll see total white. On a dark app you'll see the regular black background with white symbols.

 

[hilla_killa]

So if i just want black navbar all i need is the black hex code and my buttons will stay white?

 

[haksancan]

So if i just want black navbar all i need is the black hex code and my buttons will stay white?

Fully opaque black is −16777216 ( ff 00 00 00 = 4278190080 , substract 4294967296 so it becomes −16777216)

 

[chungdae]

Great post, however the navigation bar with Samsung Browser turns to white whenever I open it. Anyway to fix that?

 

[trungquan_it]

Hey guys, just a question pop up in my mind, can we make the navbar (both background and button) completely transparent, so we can see through the navbar in any app, and the buttons are still there when we need to use? Is it possible to do it?

 

[Xxk1ll3rxX]

Is there any way to change the colours of the stock icons in the navbar? Is there is any overlay with substratum, because I want it to be a specific blue. I have a picture of the navbar icons in the blue but I'm not allowed to upload pictures on this website yet.

 

[MarkerBeanXDA]

Hey guys, just a question pop up in my mind, can we make the navbar (both background and button) completely transparent, so we can see through the navbar in any app, and the buttons are still there when we need to use? Is it possible to do it?

I'm also looking for somethinf like this. It makes perfect sense as this will give us a really full screen experience all throughout the device.

 

[DivijKaura]

How did you get option to hide the navbar? I dont have it in my settings.

 

[trungquan_it]

How did you get option to hide the navbar? I dont have it in my settings.

You have to update to latest firmware AQF7.

 

[DivijKaura]

You have to update to latest firmware AQF7.

Yes mine is AQF7 Batman Rom.

 

[trungquan_it]

Yes mine is AQF7 Batman Rom.

I'm still using stock rom, but you can go to Settings -> Display -> Navigation Bar and check again.

 

[MarkerBeanXDA]

Transparency is possible by adding transparency value to beginning of hex number. It somewhat tricky to calculate because integers overflows and wraps around to negative values.

Formula is:
1. Add transparency value to beginning
2. Convert to decimal
3. Substract 4294967296 if it is greater than 2147483647

For example if you want color "34 bd 3c" and make it fully transparent you must prepend "ff" and the number becomes "ff 34 bd 3c". Convert it to decimal: 4281646396. Substract: 4281646396-4294967296=−13320900. So −13320900 is the value you want.

Hi, thank you for this information. Can you help me to get the transparent navbar background without using PC? I am currently rooted. Is there any other way to do this without pc?

 

[difference]

How the hell did Samsung think when removing the option to have black navigation bar? Idiots.

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

 

[haksancan]

Hey guys, just a question pop up in my mind, can we make the navbar (both background and button) completely transparent, so we can see through the navbar in any app, and the buttons are still there when we need to use? Is it possible to do it?

not sure if it works in all situations because some apps still may set different colors but Yes you can by Setting it to fully transparent black.(value should be 0 though I didnt confirm it)
Note that in this case you cant see buttons when the app has white background, but they'll still work.

 

[thedicemaster]

you can use autotools to change the values without ADB.
you only need to give autotools secure settings permissions through ADB once, and then you can change colors whenever you want.

 

[jknut]

What is the ADB command to reset back to normal?