How do you remove the title text from the Android ActionBar?

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I'm looking through the Holo.Light theme, and I can't seem to find the magic style to override to get rid of the title text that briefly shows up when my app first launches.

How can I do that?

score 222 · Answer 1 · edited May 03 '19 at 09:02

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Try:

 getActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

For v.7:

 getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

edited May 03 '19 at 09:02

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answered Jul 14 '12 at 18:54

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you will still see the title while the action bar is loading which is not what you want. the right solution is what m3n0R suggested. – numan salati Feb 21 '13 at 01:03
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it should be getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); for v7 . othewise it will produce null pointer execption – Amir Oct 06 '15 at 14:57
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@numansalati Who is m3n0R? I've searched the page and found nothing – ka3ak Oct 13 '18 at 10:52
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When should I cal the methods? I mean from which method (activity, fragment) should it be called? – ka3ak Oct 13 '18 at 10:53
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You just need this once, in `onCreate` of your `MainActivity.tk`. This is the right solution, ignore the comments above. – Houman Oct 06 '20 at 15:06

score 96 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 14 '13 at 03:47

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I think this is the right answer:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="Widget.Styled.ActionBar" parent="Widget.Sherlock.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
    <item name="android:displayOptions">showHome|useLogo</item>
    <item name="displayOptions">showHome|useLogo</item>
</style>

answered Jan 14 '13 at 03:47

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What about Android 4? I am not using ActionBarSherlock so there is no resource named `Widget.Sherlock.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse`. What parent should I use? – Alex Semeniuk Mar 04 '13 at 07:31
Holo Theme. By default there are 3 holo themes you can extend on. – cesards Mar 04 '13 at 09:47
This works for hiding the title on first launch. In another activity calling setTitle doesn't work. Is there a way to swap action bar styles at runtime? – speedynomads Oct 23 '13 at 13:57
setting the default theme on runtime :) – cesards Oct 23 '13 at 15:21
@domji84, You can specify the theme of each activity in the manifest file. – ashishduh Jan 15 '14 at 17:42
I had to set the `android:actionBarStyle` on the style of the `Activity`, not the `Application`. So, use `parent=@style/Theme.AppCompat` and apply to the Activity. Just a tip to others struggling to get this working. – Nilzor Aug 01 '14 at 09:20
For Android 4, you can extend from `Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse` – jmm Mar 02 '15 at 19:02

score 63 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 12 '12 at 22:50

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I'm very new to Android so correct me if I'm wrong, but I think if you decide to use navigation tabs on the Action Bar, they seemed to not be completely left aligned because the title text color is only transparent and hasn't gone away.

<style name="CustomActionBarStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
     <item name="android:displayOptions">useLogo|showHome</item>
</style>

worked for me.

answered Jul 12 '12 at 22:50

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yes,you are wrong, no tabs in question and no holo light in your answer – miky Oct 16 '13 at 15:06
While am try this, am getting this error, @android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar requires API level 11 (current min is 10). – jrh Apr 15 '14 at 06:52
If I want to assign this style to action bar of a specific activity and not for all the activities of my application. How can I do it? where do I put the 'android:displayOptions' line? in Menu.xml? In AndroidMenifest.xml? – GyRo Feb 22 '15 at 09:20
How is that supposed to work? Please add more details for a end-to-end solution. – Houman Oct 06 '20 at 15:00

score 44 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 05 '11 at 02:09

Got it. You have to override

android:actionBarStyle

and then in your custom style you have to override

android:titleTextStyle

Here's a sample.

In my themes.xml:

<style name="CustomActionBar" parent="android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/CustomActionBarStyle</item>
</style>

And in my styles.xml:

<style name="CustomActionBarStyle" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/NoTitleText</item>
        <item name="android:subtitleTextStyle">@style/NoTitleText</item>
</style>

<style name="NoTitleText">
        <item name="android:textSize">0sp</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">#00000000</item>
</style>

I'm not sure why setting the textSize to zero didn't do the trick (it shrunk the text, but didn't make it go away), but setting the textColor to transparent works.

Yes that helped. Any idea why `android:visibility=gone` has no effect? Or better yet, why does `setDisplayShowTitleEnabled` still show the title text while the bar is loading? — mxk, Mar 08 '12 at 11:22

score 24 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 30 '12 at 03:19

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In your Manifest

<activity android:name=".ActivityHere"
     android:label="">

answered Mar 30 '12 at 03:19

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This does work, but will stop your app appearing in the 'Recently used apps' chooser – Rupert Bates Aug 02 '12 at 14:33
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this make the app don't have name on phone applications / main screen – Adam Delarosa Jul 03 '18 at 20:30
Hi @RupertBates, @Nimitack, it seems works if you assign your app name in the `application` tab, i.e., `...` – Chenglong Ma Jun 04 '21 at 06:34

Manohar · Answer 6 · 2017-12-22T11:20:39.633

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Write this statement under

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

if extending AppCompactActivity use getSupportActionbar() if extending Activity use getActionBar() else it may give

null pointer exception

using android:label="" in AndroidManifest.xml for activity also works but your app won't appear in Recently used apps

edited Dec 22 '17 at 11:20

answered Jun 20 '16 at 10:01

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score 9 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 29 '16 at 14:19

you have two choice:

first:

getActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

If usign getActionBar() produced null pointer exception, you should use getSupportActionBar()

Second

getSupportActionBar().setTitle("your title");

or

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
getSupportActionBar().hide();

score 6 · Answer 8 · answered Aug 14 '14 at 22:32

You can change the style applied to each activity, or if you only want to change the behavior for a specific activity, you can try this:

setDisplayOptions(int options, int mask) --- Set selected display 
  or
setDisplayOptions(int options) --- Set display options.

To display title on actionbar, set display options in onCreate()

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE, ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE);

To hide title on actionbar.

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(0, ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE);

Details here.

score 6 · Answer 9 · answered May 25 '15 at 14:36

i use this code in App manifest

<application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:logo="@drawable/logo2"
        android:label="@string/title_text"
        android:theme="@style/Theme.Zinoostyle" >

my logo file is 200*800 pixel and use this code in main activity.java

getActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

it will work Corectly

score 6 · Answer 10 · answered Sep 05 '17 at 11:28

I tried this. This will help -

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

getSupportActionBar should be called after setSupportActionBar, thus setting the toolbar, otherwise, NullpointerException because there is no toolbar set. Hope this helps

score 3 · Answer 11 · edited Apr 05 '14 at 00:14

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The only thing that really worked for me was to add:

<activity 
    android:name=".ActivityHere"
    android:label=""
>

edited Apr 05 '14 at 00:14

Gab

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answered Apr 04 '14 at 23:46

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well was the "wrong" answer,however it help me with a similar case :) – Javier Aug 08 '14 at 22:30
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Don't do this as it will crash your application when minimized – jfcartier Oct 01 '14 at 04:26

score 3 · Answer 12 · answered Jul 09 '16 at 17:28

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getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
    getSupportActionBar().hide();

hope this will help

answered Jul 09 '16 at 17:28

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score 2 · Answer 13 · answered Mar 30 '13 at 22:01

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If you only want to do it for one activity and perhaps even dynamically, you can also use

ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.setDisplayOptions(actionBar.getDisplayOptions() ^ ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE);

answered Mar 30 '13 at 22:01

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Vaygeth · Answer 14 · 2016-02-14T08:22:41.483

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as a workaround just add this line incase you have custom action/toolbars

this.setTitle("");

in your Activity

edited Feb 14 '16 at 08:22

answered Jan 20 '16 at 07:45

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score 1 · Answer 15 · answered Jun 04 '16 at 04:42

While all of these are acceptable, if your activity only contains a main activity, you can edit res\values\styles.xml like so:

<resources>

    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
    </style>

</resources>

I've updated parent and added the .NoActionBar property to the Light theme from Android Studios Create Blank Application Wizard.

That will disable entire action bar not only title. And if you want to create blank action bar you will have to do it for every single view. — AlwaysConfused, Apr 05 '17 at 18:41

Harsh Prajapati · Answer 16 · 2018-02-05T10:46:20.297

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Simply extends your java file from AppCompatActivity and do this:

ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar(); // support.v7
actionBar.setTitle(" ");

edited Feb 05 '18 at 10:46

answered Feb 05 '18 at 10:05

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score 1 · Answer 17 · edited Mar 01 '13 at 12:42

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Use the following:

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

edited Mar 01 '13 at 12:42

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answered Oct 05 '11 at 02:06

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You can't do that if you're using the ActionBar. If you try to do this the app will immediately crash when it opens. – Christopher Perry Oct 05 '11 at 02:10
@ChristopherPerry not true. you can use this to remove the action bar in code, provided you do it before calling setContentView. – numan salati Feb 26 '13 at 03:53
though, this is removing the whole actionbar instead of just its title! – bofredo Nov 11 '13 at 11:17

score 0 · Answer 18 · edited Mar 23 '15 at 10:01

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In your manifest.xml page you can give address to your activity label. the address is somewhere in your values/strings.xml . then you can change the value of the tag in xml file to null.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="title_main_activity"></string>
</resources>

edited Mar 23 '15 at 10:01

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answered Mar 23 '15 at 09:42

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score 0 · Answer 19 · answered Jun 09 '15 at 04:57

I am new to Android so maybe I am wrong...but to solve this problem cant we just go to the manifest and remove the activity label

<activity
        android:name=".Bcft"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait"

        **android:label="" >**

Worked for me....

score 0 · Answer 20 · answered Aug 04 '22 at 23:18

I remove the default appbar and run a custom toolbar instead using Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar then add a textview or something that extend to full toolbar width using attribute layout_width=match_parent and it pushes the title out of the toolbar. If you want to do this, you must study how to make a toolbar.

score -3 · Answer 21 · edited Mar 01 '13 at 12:42

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ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.setTitle("");

edited Mar 01 '13 at 12:42

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answered Feb 08 '13 at 11:17

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@Matteo Although it may work, it's certainly sketchy and not the right way to do it. In fact, it doesn't actually remove the title text, it just sets it to "", so that you cannot see it. – user1234 Sep 14 '14 at 16:28

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