Hide Action Bar for Splash Screen

Question

I'm trying to create splash screen without action bar.
Firstly before created splash screen, action bar in main activity and when I create splash screen, action bar comes to splash screen and main activity is full screen. I searched method like getwindow(), getActionBar(), but when I use these method program says to me unfortunately stopped. So what I'm missing?

How can I avoid actionBar in splash screen?

My code:

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    

    setContentView(R.layout.splash_item);
    
    Thread th=new Thread(){
        public void run(){
            try {
                sleep(4000);
                Intent intent=new Intent(MainActivity.this,SplashScreen.class);
                startActivity(intent);
                
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            finally{
                finish();
            }
        }
    };
    th.start();
}

MANİFEST:

  <application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
    <activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
     <activity
        android:name=".SplashScreen"
        android:label="@string/app_name" 
        >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SPLASHSCREEN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
</application>

Duplicate question! You can found the solution this: [Solution: Hide ActionBar][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/16823648/2826046 — djardon, Jan 28 '15 at 21:55
possible duplicate of [splash screen application and hide action bar](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16823049/splash-screen-application-and-hide-action-bar) — Isaac Moses, Jan 28 '15 at 21:58
Worked for me : `android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"` Add this to your activity tag — Protect Life Save Forests, Jan 28 '15 at 22:05

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 01 '16 at 22:21

5

First, import the support library in the top of your app:

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;

and change your code as follows:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.splash_item);
    getSupportActionBar().hide();
}

edited Oct 01 '16 at 22:21

Robb1

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answered Jan 28 '15 at 22:42

Josef

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 12 '16 at 17:33

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Using AppCompat for being supported for all versions:

<activity 
android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">

answered Jan 12 '16 at 17:33

Jorgesys

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 28 '15 at 21:49

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requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

Put that before your setContentView(...), should get the job done.

answered Jan 28 '15 at 21:49

The Hungry Androider

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I put but says to unfortunately stopped @The Hungry Androider – Mert Kimyonşen Jan 28 '15 at 21:57
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This dosen't work with Android 5.0 it hides only the status bar – Nadir Belhaj Mar 18 '15 at 10:21

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 02 '17 at 12:27

For Android 3.0 or higher use ActionBarAPI#hide
For lower versions you will need to use Android Support Library. Use ActionBar as

ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar(); 
actionBar.hide();

Ref docs

Also if your requirement in static, then you can choose a theme for your activity that dos not have actionbar such as

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.NoActionBar"

You can do this as:

<activity android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.NoActionBar" 
  android:name=".name_here" 
  android:label="@string/app_name" >

Cristian Olaru · Answer 5 · 2015-01-28T22:03:15.873

use a style without actionbar, also in your splash screen activity java extend Activity and make the splash screen your MAIN activity and in this activity you call an Intent to open your MainActivity after some seconds

 <application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
    <activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
    </activity>
        <activity android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.NoActionBar"
        android:name=".SplashScreen"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
       <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
</application>

Example: In your SplashScreen activity write this code. This will open your MainActivity after 2 seconds.

  new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable()
  {
    public void run()
    {
      Intent localIntent = new Intent(SplashScreen.this, MainActivity.class);
      SplashScreen.this.startActivity(localIntent);
      SplashScreen.this.finish();
    }
  }, 2000L);

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 02 '17 at 12:08

This is the simplest method.

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
    getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
                WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}

where R.layout.activity_main is replaced by your layout activity e.g. activity_splash

Hide Action Bar for Splash Screen

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