How to remove the title bar from Android app - android

How to remove the title bar from my app.?
I tried by making changes in manifest file by adding "NoTitleBar" at the end of theme and i also followed the answer given in this question
"How to hide the title bar for an Activity in XML with existing custom theme"
But none of them worked for me.Please help

Use this:
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
in your Activity.

You could add in your activity before you set view in oncreate function.
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
It is because your activity is extending ActionBarActivity. You could replace by extending Activity for your activity.
public class MainActivity extends Activity
I hope this will solve your problem.

In the AndroidManifest.xml file you can find a tag <application
That tag contains android:theme attribute, it must be something like "#style/AppTheme". Open the file styles.xml.
Find a tag style name="AppTheme" and change its parent attribute to be Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar.
In my case it is
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
To hide the title bar on the preview mode click on the button next to the orientation switcher button, that must open a popup where you can choose a style. Choose one with NoActionBar, for example DeviceDefault.Light.NoActionBar

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Android how to set ActionBar in just one Activity

I am new to Android and I'm facing this problem.
I got MainActivity with items list, when one of them is clicked then the DetailActivity starts.
I disabled ActionBar with
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light.NoActionBar">
so the MainActivity no longer have actionBar. But I want this ActionBar in the DetailActivity ( i need the basic one, with the left arrow to get back to MainActivity ), so I created another style
<style name="DetailTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light.DarkActionBar">
and used it in activity_detail.xml like this
android:theme="#style/DetailTheme"
But it seems this is not the right way, because there is no ActionBar in that Activity .
I'm currently not sure if DetailActivity will be the only one with ActionBar, so I would like to know how to activate it on just this one Activity.
What is the right solution for this ?
Not sure but maybe try assigning it to the activity in the manifest
<activity android:name=".DetailActivity"
android:theme="#style/DetailTheme"/>
used it in activity_detail.xml like this android:theme="#style/DetailTheme"
My best guess is that you mean you added the android:theme attribute to the root view tag in your layout file. Maybe something like this:
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:theme="#style/DetailTheme"
...
/>
This doesn't actually apply the theme to your Activity, it only applies the theme to your Activity's "content view". Content views don't have action bars, so those attributes of the theme will be ignored.
To apply a theme to an Activity, you have to specify it in AndroidManifest.xml
<activity
android:name=".DetailActivity"
android:theme="#style/DetailTheme"/>

Set application theme globally in android

I am setting theme for each activity seperately in the corresponding activity.java file.
setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_Holo_Light);
Can i set the theme globally in the manifest file and then override it to change action bar background color etc.
In AndroidManifest.xml
<application
android:theme="#style/MyAppTheme">
In styles.xml
<style name="MyAppTheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
</style>
But it crashes.Why?
as per my guessing it is happening
cause your using theme which is not supporting to actionbar and your calling actionbar related code in such activity i mean your app may be crashing in that activity where you write actionbar related code but unfortunately the theme for that activity is not actionbar related theme thats why may be it comes
use actionbar related theme in that activity using
android:theme="#style/actionbar supported theme"
line in manifest against that activity

How to remove default action bar in Android project?

I have created an Android application in Eclipse and when I have setting up I have unchecked every navigation bar. I still have the default navigation bar, how I can remove it?
You can do this in your activity:
ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar(); \\ or getActionBar()
You can then hide it like this:
actionBar.hide();
Please note the warning about this in the "Removing the action bar" section of http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html
In an app I made, I removed the title/ActionBar using this code in the onCreate method:
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
this.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
setContentView(R.layout.main); //insert your own layout here
Make sure that the requestWindowFeature method appears before the setContentView method, because otherwise your Activity will crash.
First of all create a new theme/style within your styles.xml in the resources folder. Insert the following code within your resource tags:
<style name="noActionBar" parent="Theme.Base"></style>
By using parent "Theme.Base" it creates a blank screen to work on. Then just set your android theme to your new style in the android manifest, within the 'application' tags.
android:theme="#style/noActionBar"
Please note that if your class file for your activity contains any reference to the ActionBar it may crash when compiling.
Go in styles.xml and change to:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">

Android: Issue with hiding title bar

I want to hide the title bar in all activities of my app. To do that, I put the following attribute in the tag:
android:theme="#android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"
The title bar is now hidden, but my problem is that my app looks weird with that attribute.
Before:
http://imageshack.us/a/img831/6905/screenshot1355296053406.png
with the noTitleBar attribute:
http://imageshack.us/a/img211/581/screenshot1355295921669.png
It looks like there is less contrast..
It makes no difference if the noTitleBar attribute is in the application tag or in each activity tag.
Hope you can help me with my problem.
In onCreate() of activity write following:
this.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
It's probably because you have also removed the Theme of your application together with the title bar.
I'm not sure what your theme was before, but you should extend an existing theme. Something like this in your styles file:
<style name="MyTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light.NoTitleBar.">
</style>
Maybe your parent theme should be android:Theme.Black.NoTitleBar?
You've accepted no answer so I'm going to toss my 2 cents in here:
Adding this snippet of code might be helpful:
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

Custom titlebar - system titlebar being shown for a brief moment?

I've got a custom layout I want to use as the titlebar of my android app. The technique found (linked at the bottom) works, but the system titlebar is displayed before onCreate() is called. Obviously that looks pretty jarring, as for a moment the system titlebar is shown, then my custom titlebar is shown:
// styles.xml
<resources>
<style name="MyTheme">
<item name="android:windowTitleSize">40dip</item>
</style>
</resources>
// One of my activities, MyTheme is applied to it in the manifest.
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);
setContentView(R.layout.my_activity);
getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, R.layout.my_custom_header);
}
I could always hide the system titlebar and display my own in-line perhaps with each and every layout, but, that's not very friendly.
Thanks
http://www.londatiga.net/it/how-to-create-custom-window-title-in-android/
I think it's a framework limitation. I had the same problem in some of my applications and the ultimate solution was for me to tell the framework I didn't want a title bar at all and then create my own in my layouts. The include directive made it bearable for me, e.g.:
<include layout="#layout/title" />
When I used requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE) in my activities, I would have the same issue, I'd see the system title bar briefly while the activity was being build when it first loaded.
When I switched to using a theme to tell the framework I didn't want a title, the problem went away and I now see my own title directly on first load. The styling is easy for that:
<style name="FliqTheme" parent="#android:Theme.Black">
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
I know this doesn't apply to your issue with the custom title, but like ptc mentioned, if you move your custom title into style/theme definitions (which you do by overriding the system title styles in your theme), I think you'll be on the right track.
The same problem happened to me today when I was trying to custom the title. I solved it by set the android:theme to android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar in the AndroidManifest.xml, and call setTheme() to the actual theme I want in my activity's onCreate callback function.
Try creating a custom theme style in XML and then set your activity's theme attribute in the AndroidManifest.xml file.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/themes.html#ApplyATheme
The method through setting android:theme does not work for me, I have made it by adding the following code in onCreate() of my Activity subclass:
getWindow().addFlags(LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

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