Cannot seem to remove Action bar programmatically or in XML

Question

I've followed the plethora of helpful and thorough instructions around SO and the internet in general regarding removing ActionBars in an Activity. I've tried to do so via the onCreate() method and XML but my ActionBar has irritatingly remarkable resilience.

I tried this code in my onCreate() method and the notification bar disappeared, but the ActionBar did not.

I have, of course, tried appending android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" and quite a few other .NoActionBar and .NoTitleBar themes in the XML to the first RelativeLayout (is this the right place to put it? It's the highest level automatically present), to no effect.

Any ideas as to why these methods have failed?

Did you change the theme on the all Style.xml files ? values/style.xml , values-v11/style.xml and etc ... — Morteza Soleimani, Feb 21 '15 at 10:53

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 21 '15 at 10:55

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Here is the nuclear option. Extend your Activity as

public class MainActivity extends Activity{

    ...

}

instead of

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity{

    ...

}

answered Feb 21 '15 at 10:55

Yash Sampat

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This is not a solution – Apurva Feb 21 '15 at 14:08

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 21 '15 at 10:55

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In your onCreate method, execute this code:

getActionBar().hide();

answered Feb 21 '15 at 10:55

Marcus

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I thought he said he already tried everything ... he *must* have tried this, right ? – Yash Sampat Feb 21 '15 at 10:57
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If he would have tried _everything_, this question would not be asked :-) @ZygoteInit – Marcus Feb 21 '15 at 10:59
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Well, what I mean is that `getActionBar().hide()` is the first and most trivial thing anybody would do :) – Yash Sampat Feb 21 '15 at 11:03
You'd be surprised... :-) @Zygotelnit. Anyway, upvoted your answer. – Marcus Feb 21 '15 at 11:14

Cannot seem to remove Action bar programmatically or in XML

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