Android - Black bar in landscape mode

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Steps to reproduce

On android and with the phone held in landscape mode, I get a black bar on the right side of the screen. Please see attachment.

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Did you follow the

Tested with default Obsidian theme, without active CSS snippets, in safe mode.

Expected result

Obsidian should use the full width of the screen in landscape mode.

Environment

Android: 11
Webview: 128.0.6613.127
Plugins: deactivated (safe mode)
CSS snippets: deactivated
Theme: default obsidian theme
Obsidian version: 1.6.7

Additional information

I hoped an update of Webview would solve this issue as well, but it didn’t.

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I can’t reproduce this problem.

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I’ve done some research:

The black bar in landscape mode is definitely related to the camera notch / cutout.

This screen cutout isn’t configurable on my Motorola phone, like on other phones.

cutout options

In developer mode, I can choose several cutout options. Unfortunately, none of them corrects the black bar.

  1. The default cutout is the “best” option, the others add black bars in portrait mode or landscape mode.

  2. There’s a “waterfall” cutout which removes the black bar in landscape view, but adds two bars on top and bottom (landscape mode), thus reducing the max height. And in portrait mode the same waterfall cutout adds two bars on the left/right, thus reducing max width.

Solution

The solution would be to add a “fullscreen” parameter to Obsidian. Each and every app needs to add fullscreen on its own, because fullscreen isn’t available globally

At least on my phone, there’s no visible or invisible app I could activate to control global fullscreen.