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Status Bar on bottom

I am thinking that it would be good for both landscape and portrait mode to have the status bar at the bottom of the screen, so you don't have to always have your hand near the top of the tablet to go to your home screen or back a page. The way viewonic made the soft touch buttons on the top right corner when in landscape mode is annoying, also when your in portrait they are at the top of the tablet instead of at the bottom. Has anyone attempted this already? If it hasn't, I think one of the devs should move it to the bottom of the screen on their rom.

Does Android need navigation buttons?

After watching a demo of the new BlackBerry 10 today, it occured to me that Android doesn't need the navigation bar taking up screen real estate. The back button can be replaced by swipe from left edge into center (similar to pulling down the notification bar on top). Swiping from bottom up brings up the menus. And swiping from right to left can either go home or with a second up or down flick go to recent apps (or switch these two).
Once this is implemented, manufacturers can get rid of the bottom capacitive buttons, increasing screen size while keeping phone physical size constant. Android can finally get rid of the navigation bar that wastes so much space.

Make it happen I'll test but I like my soft keys
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Well, that's a thought. Personally, I'd just put the softkeys into the statusbar and get rid of the navigation bar altogether.
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Apparently the Ubuntu smartphone OS has all these edge swipe gestures in the plans:
http://youtu.be/cpWHJDLsqTU

Remove black bar on left side in landscape mode

I couldn't find any posts on this. Is it possible to force full screen in landscape mode? There is always a black bar on the left side over the camera in all apps.
Chris

Can status icons 'skip' the hole punch?

I prefer having my clock on the right side of the top bar. Doing that, all my status icons are pushed towards the center. I usually have enough of them that one gets obscured by the hole punch (on outside and inside display, in portrait mode). Usually it's the alarm or bluetooth icon that gets hidden. The hole punch is in the exact right position and size to perfectly hide an entire icon.
Is there a way for the icons to 'skip' the hole punch? Maybe a way to add an extra icon that will always appear on the 4th position, only in portrait mode?
I expect this issue to have come up on other phones as well (S20?), but this is my first phone with a center hole punch camera.

Notification bar pull-down area rarely registers.

I just got my Galaxy Note 20 Ultra the other day and there's something pretty frustrating that I'm hoping someone can help me out with. There is a feature that allows you to swipe down on the home screen to pull down the notification panel. This this feature is disabled, or you're on any other screen other than the home-screen, there is only a very very very thin line that represents the notification bar that registers you pressing when wanting to pull the notification bar down. Its even worse when I have my case on. I have to try press and dragging somewhere between 5-7 times before it works.
I guess I'm just wondering if there is a way or setting to expand the area at the top that acknowledges the notification pull-down feature. Currently, so far as I can tell, it measures at about .25cm vertical area that recognizes the drag-down feature. Can we increase to .5 or maybe even .75cm vertical area?

Use Nova Launch, in the settings go to gesture. From there you can do whatever you want.

You can also put another bottonin your Nav bar that pull down the notification on any apps anywhere. In the Good Lock app go to the NavStar. Choose a new configuration or long press on the navbar option of your choice and you can put more button on it. I have 7 and they're all very useful for me.