To remove the back arrow button from Action Bar

Question

In my Android Project, whenever I go from First Activity to Second, I get an left arrow button followed by the some text in the action bar. That left arrow only comes when I set my First Activity as the hierarchical parent of the Second Activity.

I want to remove that back button and replace it with an icon. I have read other posts for the same question, and so I have already tried the following code in my onCreate() method.

getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);

But after reaching to the second activity, the app gets crashed.

Please help me out.

post you AndroidManifest.xml – Sepehr Behroozi Feb 19 '15 at 12:32 — Sepehr Behroozi, Feb 19 '15 at 12:32

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 19 '15 at 12:23

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Use getSupportActionBar() bar:

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);
getSupportActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(false);

answered Feb 19 '15 at 12:23

Juanjo Vega

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 19 '15 at 12:25

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getSupportActionBar().setHomeAsUpIndicator(R.drawable.ic_yourindicator);

answered Feb 19 '15 at 12:25

sakir

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This should be followed up with a little more details as to why it fixes the OP's issue. – Iguananaut Feb 19 '15 at 18:40

To remove the back arrow button from Action Bar

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