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Omkar Phadke
Omkar Phadke

Reputation: 27

How to hide Action Bar in Android Studio 4.1?

I am using Android Studio 4.1 and I want to hide the Action Bar. I searched stack overflow, but it seems there are some new methods introduced in Android Studio update of October 2020 since getActionBar().hide(); line method no longer works and app directly crashes. For more clarity, I created a new Project and added nothing else except the getActionBar().hide(); in the onCreate() method. Still the app crashes. My emulator is running on API 30, Android 11 on Pixel 3.

Kindly help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5094

Answers (3)

Nouman
Nouman

Reputation: 21

Create this theme in themes.xml

<style name="NoActionBarTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
            <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
            <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
            <item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
</style>

Call in Manifest.xml

<activity
            android:name=".ui.activities.SplashScreen"
            android:exported="true"
            android:theme="@style/NoActionBarTheme">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

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

Upvotes: 0

Gabriele Mariotti
Gabriele Mariotti

Reputation: 364948

It doesn't depend by Android Studio.
Since you are using a AppCompatActivity and you have to use getSupportActionBar() instead of getActionBar().

As alternative you can use a .NoActionBar theme, for example.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.NoActionBar">
   ...
</style>

Upvotes: 3

shaheer cs
shaheer cs

Reputation: 33

If my understanding is correct you don't want action bar any more.then if you are using old base android theme then you can change into this.

  <!-- 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>

or if you using new material design then you can change into.

 <!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="Theme.TextOverlayDemo" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.NoActionBar">
    <!-- Primary brand color. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/purple_500</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryVariant">@color/purple_700</item>
    <item name="colorOnPrimary">@color/white</item>
    <!-- Secondary brand color. -->
    <item name="colorSecondary">@color/teal_200</item>
    <item name="colorSecondaryVariant">@color/teal_700</item>
    <item name="colorOnSecondary">@color/black</item>
    <!-- Status bar color. -->
    <item name="android:statusBarColor" tools:targetApi="l">?attr/colorPrimaryVariant</item>
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
</style>

Thank you, feel free to ask doubts.

Upvotes: 0

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