Full Screen Figures in Matlab

Matlab's native figure command does not give you an option to make your figure full screen in 1 step. Instead first you have to find the screen resolution and then give your figure command the size of the screen.

First thing you want to do is:

screen_size = get(0, 'ScreenSize');

This will return a 4 element array: (left, bottom, width, height);
The ones we are interested are the "width" and "height".

Now we have the size of the screen, we can make our figure full screen:

f1 = figure(1);
set(f1, 'Position', [0 0 screen_size(3) screen_size(4) ] );

Now you should have a figure that is full screen.