[mono-android] Honeycomb 3.1 / Mono for Android persist 'LightsOut'

[thenextman]

Cross post of my SO question here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9472185/honeycomb-3-1-mono-for-android-persist-lightsout
(I hope that is acceptable...)

I developed my app using Mono for Android. I have the latest version 4.0.3.
My AndroidManifest.xml specifies:

<uses-sdk android:targetSdkVersion="11" android:minSdkVersion="8" />
The app runs on tablets, so in Honeycomb I need to hide the status bar at
the bottom of the screen. This is how I do that (with a simple extension
method):

internal static void LightsOut(this View view)
        {
            try
            {
                IntPtr view_setSystemUiVisibility =
JNIEnv.GetMethodID(view.Class.Handle, "setSystemUiVisibility", "(I)V");
                JNIEnv.CallVoidMethod(view.Handle,
view_setSystemUiVisibility, new JValue(1));
            }
            catch 
            { }
        }

I call this on every view that I instantiate. On my Motorola Xoom, running
3.0.1, this works great.

On my Samsung Galaxy Tab running 3.1, it works; but the status bar comes
back after some short period of time. In the Android Log I see that
LightsOn() is getting called...

How can I prevent the status bar from coming back in 3.1? I saw this event:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.OnSystemUiVisibilityChangeListener.html

And thought I could use it to hide the status bar, if it comes back. But I
don't see how I can subscribe to it (it doesn't show in Intellisense).

Thanks in advance for any help.

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