Removing title bar changes display of ProgressDialog - android

In my android app, which is just a webview displaying a responsive web site, I want to remove the title bar so I add this to the application section of the manifest XML.
android:theme="#android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"
The problem is, I get two totally different ProgressDialog UI treatments. The one with the title bar is much nicer so I would like to keep it, but I don't want a title bar.
I believe this relates to the theme. I want to keep the theme, just not the title bar... at least I think. How do I keep the nicer styling, and hide the title bar instantly (not programmatically once the activity starts, that shows the title bar briefly)?

The problem is that Theme.NoTitleBar comes from pre-Honeycomb era, so it shows a pre-Honeycomb dialog.
If your app is API 11 or up you can simply switch by the Holo version of it (I honestly don't remember the name).
Or to support both older and newer device you'll have to use this type of approach Different Theme for different Android SDK versions to apply Theme.NoTitleBar to old devices and its holo counterpart for newer devices.
happy coding.

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Action Bar on Android is still showing despite using NoActionBar theme

I am using the theme Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.NoActionBar (docs) for my Android app.
I am also calling getActionBar().hide() in the MainActivity.
On nearly all my devices, the Action Bar is not displaying. However on one device, a Pixel 6 running Android 12, I still see the Action Bar. I am sure I've installed the latest version of my app.
Any ideas why the Action Bar is still hanging around on this one device?
I had the same problem (I thought) until I realized that I had set the .NoActionBar style in my values/themes.xml but NOT in my values-night/themes.xml and the device with the "issue" was in dark mode.
Solution:
Set Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.NoActionBar in both values/themes.xml and values-night/themes.xml.

Translucent icons in ActionBar when disabled: only on my phone?

I'm using ActionBarSherlock on my app and when I disable some MenuItem in the ActionBar the icon turns translucent on my phone (HTC One X running stock Android 4.0.4) but I haven't seen this behavior in any other phone or emulator.
Am I right in assuming this behavior is not the default one for the native ActionBar? I like the idea though... It warns the user that the MenuItem is not enabled for some reason (in my case, it's a save button and if at least one field is not filled, it disables the button).
I was thinking in providing myself a translucent icon and set it manually when the MenuItem is disabled. This will work on every Android version, native ActionBar or not. The problem is that on my phone (or any other with the same behavior for that matter), it will be twice as translucent and I don't want that.
Any ideas on how can I properly achieve this effect?
I think that the problem is on the Theme, you are applying the default theme. So, HTC override default theme resources, i think you have to create a custom theme and change the item_background to the default one on sdk resources.
<item name="selectableItemBackground">#android:drawable/item_background</item>
you would have to set the background to be independent of the theme. In the .xml file you could set :
android:background="?android:attr/listSelector"
on the view where you want the color.

ActionBarSherlock doesn't show ActionItems when using dialog theme

I am trying to update my app with the new ActionBar paradigm. I want to keep compatibility backwards though, as my largest user base is still on Gingerbread.
To that end, I am trying to integrate ActionBarSherlock into my app.
My app is designed to use the dialog theme, so when I integrated ABS, I tried to use the corresponding dialog theme as so in my AndroidManifest.xml:
<application android:theme="#style/Theme.Sherlock.Dialog" >
My ActionItems would not show up though, and only appeared as old-school menu items (meaning they were completely inaccessible on my tablet). Looking at the samples in the ABS download, I decided to try changing my app and removing the .Dialog qualifier, changing my AndroidManifest.xml to:
<application android:theme="#style/Theme.Sherlock" >
Once I did that, the menu items moved from the menu to the ActionBar, where I expected and want them to be. So it would seem that, with default conditions, ActionItems are not enabled when using the .Dialog theme.
Is there any way to enable this behavior, so that the menu items would show in the ActionBar as expected while still using the dialog theme?

Hide Actionbar, Show Options Menu

I have a non-market app that was built to run on a specific device. Originally, this was on a device running 2.2, but now the app is targeting a specific device on 3.1 and I am adding in support for the Action Bar.
One of the apps Activities is required to be full-screen and have hidden the status bar and the Action Bar. This is achieved using the following in the manifest:
<activity
android:name=".activity.EditorActivity"
android:label="#string/activity_edit"
android:theme="#style/Canvas">
Which references this style:
<style name="Canvas" parent="#android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen">
<item name="android:windowBackground">#color/bg_white</item>
</style>
So, after moving to 3.1, the effect works, in that the Activity is fullscreen, and everything is hidden as needed, but this of course hides the options menu from populating the Action Bar.
I know that if I leave the android:targetSdkVersion="8", the options menu is shown in the bottom navigation, but this seems like a bit of a hack - is there any other way or 'best practice' for this? I basically have to set android:targetSdkVersion="12" to ensure the app works and isn't put onto older devices so this won't be a permanent solution.
I've decided to stop trying to swim upstream and have switched to using a translucent Action Bar that is overlaid - it works perfectly and is exactly what I had been doing prior to 3.x with my custom solution.
Custom Translucent Android ActionBar

Honeycomb Action Bar not showing (baffled)

I am completely baffled. I created an application with minSDK=4 and targetSDK=11. Compiled and ran on the Xoom tablet. I am not getting an Action Bar and cannot figure out what I have done wrong. I have been staring at the screen for hours and don't know what I have done that would have caused the bar to disappear. Help! Any suggestions on why I am not seeing the Action Bar?
You need to declare android:theme="#android:style/Theme.Holo" for Activity in Manifest xml.
The dev guide says like you only need to set the target SDK version, but it does not work.
I'm quoting from here:
"If you are using the Support Library APIs for the action bar, then you must use (or override) the Theme.AppCompat family of styles (rather than the Theme.Holo family, available in API level 11 and higher)."
I used android:theme="#style/Theme.AppCompat" in my manifest and the action bar appeared.
Romulus' answer, forcing the App to use the Holo theme will work but it results in a compile error if your minSDK is less than 11.
Check if you have defined a theme in the AndroidManifest:
android:theme="#style/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
That means you're forcing the App to use a particular theme, so the action bar might not appear on Honeycomb or higher devices (it depends if the theme specifies an action bar). Delete this statement to cause the App to use the default device theme, so the Settings menu appears on pre-Honeycomb devices and the action bar appears on post-Honeycomb devices. Job done. Hope this helps.

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