FabricateOverlay VS HideNavBar

For anyone unrooted AND on/before Android 12, Fabricate Overlay does work but is currently depreciated due to patches made in 12L/12.1, meaning those of us on Android 13 are unable to use this method. (Worked on the Pixel 5 pre 12.1 update) Fabricate Overlay

Fabricate is similar to substratum. Without root you can modify overlays. That basically means you can add and change accent colours, size of elements, amount of elements, padding,... Almost any visual element can be modified. Here's what I did with the qs tiles. If you want to learn more about fabricate visit the GitHub Fabricate is not garanteed to work indefinitely, and could very well be patched with android 12L, it's working right now, so I take advantage of it

- Download and install [FabricateOverlay 1.0.2 from GitHub](https://github.com/zacharee/FabricateOverlay/releases).

Little known fact: using a loophole in A12 you can bring back immersive mode to the system. Using this app, create an overlay for Android System, setting these 2 fields to 0.

Step 2: Install the Fabricate Overlay App

For rooted users HideNavBar for Magisk works great. Just follow a guide on XDA and say bye to the pill forever. I haven't tried it on my Pixel 7 but it worked well on a rooted Samsung tablet I had around. HideNavBar

In LOS 19 I use an xposed module that removes the "pill" on the bottom of the screen in gesture navigation mode, and allows to disable back swipes. Not sure if it helps in your case

Here is a link to the GitHub repo that implements this functionality with magisk. I'm not sure if that is any help though since magisk requires root.

You can download it from GitHub here.

You can use a magisk module like this one https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/HideNavBar

Okay. Have you tried Magisk modules? I like this one for example, although it does only change the navbar.

Hide the navigation bar (Magisk-Modules-Repo/HideNavBar (github.com) ).