How to remove Title Bar from Activity extending ActionBarActivity or AppcompatActivity with Dialog Theme

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I had to extend my Activity with theme Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog from ActionBarActivity before and now from AppcompatActivity, because my Base Activity extends this one.

But now with new appcompat v7 (v22) library my Activity started to show title bar despite the fact that i use custom style with items windowActionBar=false, android:windowNoTitle=true. But until appcompat library upgraded there isn't such problem, title bar wasn't showed.

If my activity extends FragmentActivity everything is ok and i understand that maybe i use a bad pattern that my dialog activity extends from AppcompatActivity but i would like to know is there a way to remove title bar?

because the activty inherits some common things from a base class activty that extends AppCompatActivity. In my app almost all activities extend this base. — Mikhail Kharbanov, Jun 10 '15 at 02:56
@MikhailKharbanov Did you find the solution for this problem? — f470071, Oct 25 '15 at 17:59

score 73 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 02 '15 at 11:57

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I had same issue and needed to do something like following to resolve (note use of "windowNoTitle" instead of "android:windowNoTitle")

<style name="Theme.MyDialog" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog">
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>

answered Jul 02 '15 at 11:57

John O'Reilly

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@Mikhail This should be the accepted answer. Works! :) – PieterAelse Nov 18 '15 at 13:45
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Thanks, answer is true..:) – Jignesh Goyani Feb 01 '16 at 05:49
i tried so many ridiculous things before this simple answer worked! – I wrestled a bear once. Jun 20 '16 at 19:52
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The note (use of "windowNoTitle" instead of "android:windowNoTitle") is crucial! – Mr. Fish May 04 '18 at 06:16

score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 15 '16 at 03:03

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Try

  getSupportActionBar().hide()

if you are using AppCompatActivity

And

 getActionBar().hide()

if your activity extends ActionBarActivity. Hope it helps.

answered Jan 15 '16 at 03:03

Krishna Satwaji Khandagale

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score 16 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 10 '15 at 03:44

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You can hide the action bar at runtime by calling hide(). For example:

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

edited Jun 10 '15 at 03:44

Piyush

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answered Jun 10 '15 at 03:38

saksham agarwal

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Android Studio complained until I wrapped the actionBar.hide(); in a null check: if (actionBar != null) {actionBar.hide();} – proximous Sep 25 '15 at 18:27

score 12 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 04 '16 at 20:27

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Only one thing work in AppCompat Theme - supportRequestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

edited Aug 04 '16 at 20:27

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answered Aug 04 '16 at 20:07

Andoctorey

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score 9 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 18 '16 at 07:23

To solve the actionbar on class extend AppCompatActivity I start with define new theme extend from main theme in style.xml file :

style.xml

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

    <style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
    </style>

and implement noactionbar theme to activity that you want in AndroidManifest.xml. Hope this help :)

score 8 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 08 '15 at 16:00

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If you're using support library use:

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

If not then use

getActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

answered Jul 08 '15 at 16:00

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None of the style based method worked for me (my Activity inherits from AppCompatActivity); but this one did: thanks! – DenisGL Dec 30 '16 at 19:10

score 1 · Answer 7 · edited Apr 18 '18 at 14:02

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Adding android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar" in AndroidManifest.xml does the trick in my case.

@Brexx Galangue solution gave me the following runtime error:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity.

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answered Mar 03 '16 at 15:48

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I also get this error, but `android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar"` is unkown in my case. – CoolMind Jul 21 '16 at 21:00

score -1 · Answer 8 · edited Jun 10 '15 at 03:45

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Try to add this code on your manifest, specifically, to the activity that you want to disappear its Actionbar:

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" >

hope it helps :D

edited Jun 10 '15 at 03:45

Piyush

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answered Jun 10 '15 at 03:15

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score -1 · Answer 9 · edited Apr 19 '18 at 05:37

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 public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

  @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
     super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
     setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
     getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);
     getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(R.layout.custom_title_bar);

  }  
}

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answered Dec 14 '17 at 04:49

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where is `R.layout.custom_title_bar` coming from? – Slack Groverglow Sep 01 '18 at 19:36
res/layout/custom_title_bar.xml – pruthwiraj.kadam Nov 26 '18 at 06:37

How to remove Title Bar from Activity extending ActionBarActivity or AppcompatActivity with Dialog Theme

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