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mgibson
mgibson

Reputation: 6203

Android - How to get rid of the bar above the ActionBar

EDIT: Android-Developers answer below explains solution very well

My problem is there are another bar, not exactly sure what it's name is - TitleBar? (The bar with the menu button and the white square logo) Above my ActionBar. What I ideally want is to merge my ActionBar with that bar or if not possible, implement my own bar completely amongst the tabs with icon and menu button. I have tried several things (see below image) and the rough code of how I am add the tabs is shown below as well.

Showing the unwanted standard bar above the ActionBar

Adding tabs to the ActionBar code:

    actionBar = getActionBar();  // Get reference to ActionBar

    // Add some navigation tabs...

    // 1. Enable ActionBar navigation tabs
    actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
    actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

    // 2. Add the tabs
    Tab programTab = actionBar.newTab();
    Tab settingsTab = actionBar.newTab();
    Tab historyTab = actionBar.newTab();

    programTab.setText("Program")
      .setTabListener(new TabListener<Fragment_Program>(
              this, "Program", Fragment_Program.class));

    settingsTab.setText("Settings")
             .setTabListener(new TabListener<Fragment_Settings>(
                      this, "Settings", Fragment_Settings.class));

    historyTab.setText("History")
    .setTabListener(new TabListener<Fragment_History>(
              this, "History", Fragment_History.class));

    actionBar.addTab(programTab);
    actionBar.addTab(settingsTab);
    actionBar.addTab(historyTab);

I was under the impression getActionBar() got reference to the existing bar which sits above my ActionBar in the screenshot.. that would be ideal.

Current application theme is android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar"

Anyway, I have tried the following:

The reason I am using standard ActionBar is this for a hardware device that will be running at least 4.0 and the version is highly unlikely to change.

Any thoughts?

Cheers

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2960

Answers (2)

hardartcore
hardartcore

Reputation: 17037

As I can understand you want to remove that view right?

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The problem is that it your ActionBar. I guess you want to use Tabs, but without the ActionBar like many of the apps which are doing that. To achieve this use :

bar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
bar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
bar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);

But don't forget something, if you want to achieve this, you should not inflate any menu in your Fragment / Activity :

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    //getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
    return true;
}

Upvotes: 4

Mohsen Afshin
Mohsen Afshin

Reputation: 13436

You should see @ColorWP answer here

The Window flags are set already set inside super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); in which case you may want to use the following order of commands:

this.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
this.getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);      

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

Upvotes: 2

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