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Mridang Agarwalla
Mridang Agarwalla

Reputation: 44988

Remove the title text from the action bar in one single activity

I added an action bar with a dropdown menu to my activity but it also shows the application name.

Each of my activities has an action bar and each of them use the theme @android:style/Theme.Holo.Light. One one my activity screens I would like to display the action bar with the dropdown/spinner menu but I would like to hide the application title.

I saw this solution on another SO post but it required me changing the global theme settings and if I've understood correctly, that approach would remove the title from all my action bars.

How can I do this?

Here's a screenshot:

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Upvotes: 3

Views: 14816

Answers (4)

dsrees
dsrees

Reputation: 6286

Can be done with a nice one liner

getActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false)

this will hide just the title. If you also want to hide the home logo

getActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);

When using the AppCompat Support library, you should replace getActionBar() with getSupportActionBar(). It is also suggested that you check if the ActionBar is null before changing values on it.

ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar()
if (actionBar != null) {
    actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
    actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
}

Upvotes: 12

zeeshan
zeeshan

Reputation: 5053

The above proposed solutions still show the title for a brief moment before making it invisible. I use the following which I believe is the best way to achieve this:

Simple disable app_name in the activity declaration in the Manifest. This way it will never show for the activity where you don't want it to appear:

<activity
        android:name="com.myapp.MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" > <!-- Delete this -->
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

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

Upvotes: 1

Budius
Budius

Reputation: 39836

For this kind of simple stuff you just have to go to the source to find the answer: here the full explanation: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html#Dropdown

and here some guide code, to include the spinner on the action bar:

 ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
 actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_LIST);

after that is just put a listener for the changes and setting the a spinner adapter.

and you can use:

 setTitle("");

to remove the title. I've been checking on my codes here, you can also give a try on:

 requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

It should just remove the title, and leave the title bar. Remember that you must call this before setContentView

happy coding.

Upvotes: 6

Sanket Kachhela
Sanket Kachhela

Reputation: 10856

use this in your activity tag of menifeast 

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"

Upvotes: -4

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