diff --git a/src/com/nitobi/phonegap/DroidGap.java b/src/com/nitobi/phonegap/DroidGap.java
index bbf87673..056d7312 100644
--- a/src/com/nitobi/phonegap/DroidGap.java
+++ b/src/com/nitobi/phonegap/DroidGap.java
@@ -21,14 +21,13 @@ package com.nitobi.phonegap;
  * OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
  * WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
  */
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 
 import android.app.Activity;
 import android.os.Bundle;
 import android.os.Handler;
 import android.util.Log;
+import android.view.Window;
+import android.view.WindowManager;
 import android.webkit.JsResult;
 import android.webkit.WebChromeClient;
 import android.webkit.WebView;
@@ -44,6 +43,9 @@ public class DroidGap extends Activity {
 	@Override
     public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
+        getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); 
+        getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FORCE_NOT_FULLSCREEN,
+                WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FORCE_NOT_FULLSCREEN); 
         setContentView(R.layout.main);        
          
         appView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.appView);
@@ -57,47 +59,13 @@ public class DroidGap extends Activity {
         /* Bind the appView object to the gap class methods */
         bindBrowser(appView);
         
-        /* Load a URI from the strings.xml file */
-        String uri = null;
-        Class<R.string> c = R.string.class;
-        Field f;
-        int i = 0;
-        
-        try {
-        	f = c.getField("url");
-        	i = f.getInt(f);
-        	uri = this.getResources().getString(i);
-        } catch (Exception e)
-        {
-        	uri = "http://www.phonegap.com";
-        }
+       
                 
-        appView.loadUrl(uri);
+        appView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/index.html");
         
     }
     
-    protected void loadFile(WebView appView){
-        try {
-            InputStream is = getAssets().open("index.html");
-                      
-            int size = is.available();
-            
-            // Read the entire asset into a local byte buffer.
-            byte[] buffer = new byte[size];
-            is.read(buffer);
-            is.close();
-            
-            // Convert the buffer into a Java string.
-            String text = new String(buffer);
-            
-            // Load the local file into the webview
-            appView.loadData(text, "text/html", "UTF-8");
-            
-        } catch (IOException e) {
-            // Should never happen!
-            throw new RuntimeException(e);
-        }
-    }
+    
     
     private void bindBrowser(WebView appView)
     {