Kindle Fire layout issues

[magicuser68]

The posts for kindle fire are kinda old, so I was hoping someone who had success would be able to help me.

I have a simple app that has buttons, labels and a background image.

When I run the app on the Kindle Fire Emulator the dreaded soft menu removes 40 pixels of the screen. If I control-f11 2 times its perfect, so i know about the bug, I just need a solution.

Has anyone solved this problems via the designer? If so what is your layout.

Has anyone solved this with code in the activity? If so can you give me a snippet?

I have 4 apps and only 1 of them has been accepted, been trying for over a month, any help would make my day.

Thanks,

- Scott

 

[margret]

For the Fire I use a layout or a variant of 1024 x 580 land or 600 x 1004 port with a scale of 1. I turn off the Title bar and set the activity to Full Screen.

 

[magicuser68]

I will give that a try.

My spiral app uses a canvas with no layout, got any tricks to make it fit as well?

http://www.b4x.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=13407&stc=1&d=1345350601

It seems to size the canvas based off the activity size.

Canvas1.Initialize(Activity)

Thanks again for the layout specs.

- Scott

 

[margret]

You can add a panel the size you need. See the second post at the link below.

http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4android-updates-questions/13051-imageview-vs-canvas.html#post73500

 

[magicuser68]

So, I used your layout you suggested, it kinda works.

The problem is that black void at the bottom where the soft keys would be located. If I change orientation it fixes itself.

Is there anyway to reload the layout once the soft keys are hidden? or any other tricks?

Thanks again almost there I can feel it

 

[Erel]

You can use the IME library to intercept the HeightChanged event which happens when the keyboard visibility state changes.

 

[margret]

If you run your app on the real device and it is started from the home screen, that blank area will not be there. This seems to be an issue with their OS. It also sounds as though their SDK is working like the real device would be loading the app from the apps panel. I never found a way around this and have not had any issues of customers contacting us about this probem. I think almost everyone starts their app from the home screen.