This happened twice already. And it was a headache to figure out. The documentation and numerous blogs mentions setting the FULLSCREEN flag on the window but it never worked.
Finally, I noticed I was missing the SDK version specification in the AndroidManifest.xml file. Out of sheer curiosity I added a minSDKVersion and a targetSDKVersion and BAM! Fullscreen on max.
I wish I could have figured this out at the recent Hackathon as well as saved the time spent figuring it out during my Information Retrieval final course project. But now I know...
