Action bar removal leaves blank space

Question

I'm an android beginner. I did not want my app to have an action bar, so I disabled it.

However, other views are displayed after a blank padding, which is where the action bar previously was. Like

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How can I have this space removed? I have tried:

setting the padding of the layout / margin of the views to 0.
Setting layout_gravity to top

Use the no action bar theme, as the accepted answer for the question you linked mentioned... — PearsonArtPhoto, Aug 02 '14 at 13:14
Not quite sure if I understand the question but I'm using android:Theme.Holo.Light.NoActionBar — dsynkd, Aug 02 '14 at 13:25
Are you sure it's not the image too short? Maybe you could change the background to fit the entire screen even if it should resize the image — Marco Acierno, Aug 02 '14 at 13:32
I mean the height of the image is not supposed to equal the height of the screen (the bottom blank space is fine), but I do expect it to stick to the very top (the top blank space is unfine) — dsynkd, Aug 02 '14 at 13:40

dastan · Answer 1 · 2016-08-09T18:35:55.230

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Add this code in style.xml

 <style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
        <item name="android:actionBarSize">0dp</item>
</style>

and use this code in Activity theme in manifest.

<activity 
       android:name=".MainActivity"
       android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar">
</activity>

edited Aug 09 '16 at 18:35

answered Aug 09 '16 at 14:42

dastan

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