Switch to immersive mode on run time

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Dear Magic Leap Team,

Is it possible to switch to immersive mode at run time?
For example, starting as "normal" Android app, then using a button to start the immersive mode.

Flowing the Magic Leap documentation Modifying APK for AR | MagicLeap Developer Documentation this only allows having an Activity configured for immersive mode by adding this line:
<meta-data android:name="com.magicleap.augmented_reality_only" android:value="true" /> to AndroidManifest.xml for that Activity.

What we are doing right now, starting a MainActivity which is a normal Android Activity, then from that starting a MagicLeapActivity, which is configured as immersive.

It would be great to just have one Activity switching on runtime to immersive mode.

Thanks,
Richard

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It is not currently possible to have one activity that is both a "standard Android Activity" and also a Native Application running in Magic Leap's AR runtime. This is primarily as those two have a different surface area for sending composition. Though there are no plans to change this in the short term I have noted this as a possible improvement for the platform team to investigate longer term.