Help Disable Home & Back Buttons??

[MrBojenglz]

Is there any way to disable the 4 buttons at the bottom of the screen? I forget if there's a term for them but the Home, Menu, Back & Search buttons?

It's almost impossible to play some games because I inevitably hit them for a split second and I lose all my progress. Pretty Frustrating.

 

[thetingster]

I don't think this is possible.

 

[Trident]

I don't believe you can do that.

 

[condog]

tis impossible without root.

 

[DDustiNN]

If you did that, how would you exit an application? Most apps have you exit by pressing the Back button... Though there are a few that actually do have Exit buttons, it's not too common...

 

[MrBojenglz]

I dunno. I was kinda hoping theres a setting I'm not aware of where maybe you can use the end button to exit. Or even better, change the time you need to hold down the menu/back buttons before they activate. The slightest slip of my finger causes me to exit out of programs all the time.

 

[textstev]

I hate those buttons really. End call button should have been the back/exit button, the trackball send to home, and there should have been a wake/power button at the top like iPhone.

Those 4 buttons on all the Android phones have been the worst idea to phones across the world.

 

[paulwintzerfr]

Hi,

Well it's completly possible to lock the 4 buttons within an application. Maybe your resquest was to lock them within the entire phone, which I think, is not possible or at least very complex to make.

Anyway, if you want the source-code to know how to lock them within an App, i can send it

Best regards,

Paul.

 

[Pjasi]

Hi,

Well it's completly possible to lock the 4 buttons within an application. Maybe your resquest was to lock them within the entire phone, which I think, is not possible or at least very complex to make.

Anyway, if you want the source-code to know how to lock them within an App, i can send it

Best regards,

Paul.

Hey Paul, if you have the source-code to lock them within an App, i would be interested to have a look

Best Regards,
Pjasi

 

[lojkoro]

Hi,

Well it's completly possible to lock the 4 buttons within an application. Maybe your resquest was to lock them within the entire phone, which I think, is not possible or at least very complex to make.

Anyway, if you want the source-code to know how to lock them within an App, i can send it

Best regards,

Paul.

Hi Paul, could you please show me the sample code for the button disabling? thank you!

http://phandroid.com/htc-droid-eris/#videos

 

[paulwintzerfr]

Hi everyone,
Sorry being that late to answer, but I'm not really often connected on this website. Anyway, due to a lot of requests concerning this problem, I'll publish the source code on my website, this week.
http://paul-wintzer.fr
Best regards,

Paul.