Nexus 7 landscape navigation bar

[v-600]

These are shots from my phone.

Portrait

Landscape

In both orientations the navigation bar is along the short side. In landscape mode this gives me extra vertical space to view content.

On my Nexus 7 this does not happen. The navigation bar remains at the bottom of the screen. I would like it to mimic the phone's behaviour. Short of fiddling with dpi settings I haven't found out a way of altering this. Yesterday I unlocked, rooted and flashed Cyanogenmod 10.1 (the most current nightly) and I'm exploring the more detailed options that has over stock.

Hopefully someone will tell me something I may have missed, or confirm that there isn't an easy way to do what I want.

 

[v-600]

Slow progress. I've found an app and guide that allow per-app dpi changes.

Here if you're interested

I then proceeded to test with my news app which worked fine. I have small icons and more pictures, then bumped the text size back up within the app for one that I feel is better suited to me. Yay android.

I then proceeded to try and alter the nav bar. In the list of installed apps I couldn't see anything specific (that would be too easy). However the cyanogenmod launcher is called trebuchet so I tried that. It makes my homescreen phonelike, but not the navbar or notifications at the top. Likewise for the "systemui" app I tried which changes size, but not whether they are in phone, phablet or tablet mode.

I'll keep looking, but if anybody has any suggestions feel free to throw them my way.

 

[vshah]

Try paranoid android. The ui customizations are awesome

 

[v-600]

I may well end up doing that later on. For now though, what started as a niggle has kind of become a matter of pride/stubborness to get the way I want (at least until I start feeling more pragmatic again).

Worst case I root the phone and try and copy settings from the phone to the tablet. I don't wanna do that as my tablet is more of a toy I use to browse the web on my couch and watch cartoons on the bus to work. I can afford to wipe or try things with it. I rely on my phone far more for important things (calendar, messages, reminders, phone), which could be backed up/restored if needed, and don't want to mess around with it too much.