Hide the Android navigation bar on a Qbic device
A Qbic device shows Android's back, home and recents buttons along the bottom of the screen, over the player. Fullscreen, in the device's own Player settings, takes them away — and takes away the only way off the screen you are standing on, which is why it goes last.
Android keeps its back, home and recents buttons in a bar along the bottom of the screen. On a panel on a wall that bar has nothing useful to offer and sits over the player, so a finished-looking installation usually wants it gone.
It is the device’s setting, not Offision’s — so it is turned off in Qbic’s own Player settings, and it applies to whatever the device is running.
1. Do everything else first
Fullscreen takes the navigation buttons away from every screen, including the settings screen you turn it on from. It applies a moment after you tap it, and from then on there is nothing to navigate with.
So anything else the device needs — the network, the time zone, the content field, a firmware update — do it now. Coming back to any of it means rebooting the panel first.
2. Turn on Fullscreen
On the Configuration screen choose Settings, then Player settings, and scroll to SCREEN.
Fullscreen, in the SCREEN section of Player settings.
Fullscreen — “Always hide navigation bar to use fullscreen mode” — is the one to turn on. Leave Adjust window for a shown input method below it alone unless the device is one people type on.
3. Check it worked
Reboot, and watch what comes back. A device that lands on its room or its playlist with nothing along the bottom edge is finished.
Then tap the screen once. The player’s own controls should come up and the Android bar should not.
When you need the bar back
Turn Fullscreen off again in the same place — but with no navigation buttons you have to get to Player settings first, and on a device running the Offision app that means leaving the app. The console’s Setting › Leave Offision does it, and it is in Install the Offision app on a Qbic device.
What this does not do
- It is not a kiosk lock. The bar is hidden, not disabled by policy — anyone who leaves the app still reaches Android. Locking the device down is KIOSK mode, further up the same screen, and it is Qbic’s to explain.
- It does not change what the panel shows. The room, the design and the functions are all chosen in the console when the device is paired.
- Offision has no matching setting. The panel’s own console carries no full-screen row on a device running the installed app, so a panel still showing the bar is fixed in Player settings, never in the console.