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Android, Tabs without Actionbar

This question has been asked (for example, here Using ViewPager with Tabs without actionBar), however the answer there doesn't work. There's some links to Swipey but unfortunately the link is broken too.
The example from Android site EffectiveNavigation uses Actionbar to host the tab fragment, so obviously if I set a .NoActionBar theme, then there's no host. Any different way? Thanks.
Update screenshot of what I want to create, at the top, there's no actionbar.
Update 2 this is from the google example, there's an actionbar on top (titled "Effective navigation), which I want to get rid of

Solution of your problem is already given in http://developer.android.com/
To disableAction-bar Icon and Title, you must do two things:
setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false); // hides action bar icon
setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); // hides action bar title
Follow The Steps given in Using split action bar
Write Following Code in OnCreate()
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.navigation_drawer);
getActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false); // hides action bar icon
getActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); // hides action bar title
//rest of your code...
}
After Android updated Actionbar to Toolbar there are many changes in Actionbar Tabs.
Please follow below links to create swipable tabs in Andoid.
Design Structure :
Tabs Design Guidelines
Some of the very useful links are below. Please refer to them.
Download sample zip from below link
http://developer.android.com/samples/SlidingTabsBasic/index.html
Or Refer these links
http://www.android4devs.com/2015/01/how-to-make-material-design-sliding-tabs.html
http://www.exoguru.com/android/material-design/navigation/android-sliding-tabs-with-material-design.html
http://www.truiton.com/2015/06/android-tabs-example-fragments-viewpager/
https://guides.codepath.com/android/Google-Play-Style-Tabs-using-TabLayout
This may help you...

You can:
Use a ViewPager with a PagerTabStrip
Use a ViewPager with the TabPageIndicator class from the ViewPagerIndicator library
Use a ViewPager with other third-party tab indicators (e.g., in the "View Pagers" category at the Android Arsenal)
Use a ViewPager and design your own tabbed indicator
Use a FragmentTabHost and skip the swiping part

Along with
getActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
getActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
Use this as well
getActionBar().setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);

Removing an icon from the Actionbar

I want a custom ActionBar with Tabs that has a graphic background (displaying just one image) and 3 tabs.
I can't remove the icon of the actionbar.I've been through tens of stackoverflow questions about how to remove the icon and title, but nothing worked.
I have a minSdk=14, ViewPager, ActionBar compat7, ActionBarActivity. Would any of these hinder it?
This is the code I have. Some declarations are excessive, I've been trying everything I could.
The best I got is an actionbar with no title, but the icon never goes away.
final ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayUseLogoEnabled(false);
actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false); // this hides the icon well but doesn't
// work if you use actionbar tabs (viewpager)
solution below
Thanks

Have you tried for actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false)

The solution is this:
((View)findViewById(android.R.id.home).getParent()).setVisibility(View.GONE);
as seen on: https://github.com/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock/issues/327#issuecomment-10593286
Using actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false) hides the icon, but your actionbar ends up being below the viewpager tabs (if you're using any)

ActionBarSherlock with Tabs

I am trying to implement ActionBarSherlock with three tabs in the way that the tabs are placed in the same line as HomeButton. See the picture below:
I created the ActionBarSherlock and added the three tabs but they did not appear on the screen. What did I miss?
Here is my code:
//ActionBarSherlock settings
ActionBar actionBar=getSupportActionBar();
Resources res=getResources();
actionBar.setDisplayUseLogoEnabled(true);
actionBar.setLogo(res.getDrawable(R.drawable.logo));
actionBar.setSplitBackgroundDrawable(res.getDrawable(R.drawable.separator));
actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(res.getDrawable(R.drawable.navbar));
actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
//Tabs
actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab().setText("apps").setIcon(R.drawable.ico_apps_normal).setTabListener(this).setTag("apps tab"),true);
actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab().setIcon(R.drawable.ico_add_normal).setTabListener(this).setTag("add tab"));
actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab().setIcon(R.drawable.ico_news_normal).setTabListener(this).setTag("news tab"));

Try adding
bar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
before you start adding your tabs. It seems like you haven't set your navigation mode.
I've also answered a similar question regarding Actionbars and navigaton tabs here

Hide App name and it's bar

I've been trying to remove this bar (cant hotlink images, yet, check next link):
http://i.imgur.com/fRvMW.png
But I can't achieve it.
Tried the following:
Added into manifest the following:
android:theme="#android:style/Theme.NoActionBar"
But resulted as crash. Probably because I don't have this "Theme". I can't find out what should I write here.
Also tried to remove manually on each Fragment by Graphical Layout, selecting "No action bar", and it doesn't show up on the "preview" but it's shown in the app, probably because its the wrong place to configure it.
Note that it's with fragments. I searched about doing it by code, but I just found options to do it for activities.
So, my question is: How can I hide the App Action bar?
Edit:
SOLVED
On my code, I've this:
final ActionBar bar = getActionBar();
bar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
bar.setDisplayOptions(0, ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE);
So, just added:
bar.hide();
And everything is working. Even if the tabs names aren't shown, the navigation still works (Swaping right and left for swapping fragments.)

Have you tried this?
ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.hide();

ActionBarSherlock tabs and menu items

I have been learning Action Bar, I want the top menu to have Tabs + One Refresh button. So, I have tried to make a simple menu with one button:
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
menu.add("Refresh")
.setIcon(R.drawable.abs__ic_search_api_holo_light)
.setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS);
return true;
}
And adding tabs:
mViewPager = new ViewPager(this);
mViewPager.setId(R.id.pager);
setContentView(mViewPager);
ActionBar bar = getSupportActionBar();
bar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
bar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
bar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
mTabsAdapter = new TabsAdapter(this, mViewPager);
mTabsAdapter.addTab(bar.newTab().setText("Grades"), FragmentOne.class, null); // many more tabs in same format
However the problem is when the app is in portrait mode, the menu bar goes to a level below. When in Landscape mode it is more acceptable, however it groups them into pull down list. I have read Android's ActionBar but could not find a solution. What is the workaround this? I only want the Tabs to be scrollable to left-right, and refresh button static at right. Do I need to make a layout and inflate it somehow?

This is a known bug, see this conversation: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/actionbarsherlock/wYuKJUdO1vs/discussion
There is also feedback and a little workaround by Jake Wharton himself, but I don't think it will help you a lot (since you want the tabs, not the spinner).
This solution may be more helpful for you: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13828869/1140682