Hide or remove Action Bar on specific Activity | Android

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How I can remove Action Bar on specific activity not for all application, for example I have Sign Up activity and for this activity I want to remove Action Bar

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ActionBar.html#hide() — CommonsWare, Jan 06 '17 at 17:43

score 65 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 06 '17 at 17:49

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In your AndroidManifest.xml use NoActionBar theme for your Activity like this:

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

and in your styles.xml

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

answered Jan 06 '17 at 17:49

Yessine Mahdouani

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This should be the accepted answer. It fits within the developer accepted guidelines @Yessine Mahdouani – Zephania Mwando Jul 03 '20 at 12:50

firegloves · Answer 2 · 2017-01-06T17:49:13.433

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from within your activity:

getActionBar().hide();

or

getSupportActionBar().hide();

I would suggest to migrate to ToolBar, new Android API for the same purpose. The main benefit of ToolBar is that you can treat it like other views, it guarantees to you a more flexible approach.

edited Jan 06 '17 at 17:49

answered Jan 06 '17 at 17:45

firegloves

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Why load the action bar in the activity at all, then hide it? Seems like a waste to me. Just don't include it in the layout to start with. – Jon Adams Jan 06 '17 at 17:46
Because if you uses a generic root layout you could have choosen to have the ActionBar everywhere to reuse the same code. – firegloves Jan 06 '17 at 17:52

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 12 '18 at 20:46

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

answered Jun 12 '18 at 20:46

Laurelton Studios

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This will definitely remove the ActionBar in all Activities and that is not what he wants – The Only Smart Boy Jul 06 '19 at 15:03

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 06 '17 at 17:47

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If you have an ActionBar, you can use getActionBar().hide();
If you have a SupportActionBar, you can use getSupportActionBar().hide();

answered Jan 06 '17 at 17:47

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 15 '17 at 06:36

Remove Action Bar on specific Activity go to Activity java file here your Activity class extends with AppCompatActivity remove the AppCompatActivity and extends with Activity and go to xml file and select Theme NoTitleBar or go to Manifests file select your Activity and add Theme on your Activity android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"/>

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 11 '20 at 04:13

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For kotlin you can use supportActionBar?.hide()

answered Mar 11 '20 at 04:13

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