Transparent Navigation bar

[afc4950]

I hope to have a completely transparent navigation bar and only leave the icons to take full advantage of the screen for One UI 8.5.

[CEParsons]

The best way to take full advantage of your screen real estate is to use navigation gestures. You can even hide the gesture hint so that your entire screen in nothing but content.

Here's a screenshot of what that looks like in an app like doordash.

[nullandvoid]

Oy, that quarter inch at the bottom of the screen is negligible real estate; and the navigation bar can be hidden or narrowed with NavStar.  Some people can't use gestures because of dexterity issues, and some people just don't like them.  However, those that want to use every millimeter of screen real estate, should either use gestures or elect to hide the navigation bar (even with this option, the navigation bar will always show on the home screen).

[CEParsons · Accepted solution]

Not so if you disable gesture hint in settings rather than NavStar.

Minor difference, but Navstar's transparent gesture hint option disables the black/white background while maintaining the hint. Disabling in settings removes it altogether.

[nullandvoid]

I was speaking of the regular navigation bar, not the gesture hints. NavStar has a show/hide navigation bar option and you can also narrow the bar by half, fo those who want to utilize mire of the screen, but still want to use the traditional navigation buttons.

[afc4950]

The third option in the navigation bar you showed me was exactly what I needed, and yes, I was already familiar with the "NAV" app from Good Lock, but I didn't know that activating one of the switches would give me that extra setting. I'm incredibly grateful. Samsung continues to surprise me. I now have my three lines, but they're invisible.

[Goyguy]

Navigation gestures are absolute dogsheit just like Samsung after months not fixing this, this will be my last Samsung phone after two decades.

[CEParsons]

You are certainly entitled to that opinion... an opinion which seems to be the sole purpose for creating your account. 🧐

You do not have to use gestures if you don't like them. You still have the option to use buttons.

I personally find navigation gestures to be the superior navigation method. They work quite well, restore lost screen real estate, and make far more sense in a card-based UI like Android/One UI. Gestures have become the industry standard for good reason.

[nullandvoid]

Just do what was suggested then - use NavStar to add the show/hide button on the navigation bar for seamless app usage.  Maybe they will get around to fixing it, but it's certainly not going to happen if you don't put in an error report with the developers.  User feedback directly to the developers (not here) is the only way to effect change or fixes.