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Reputation: 509

Custom title bar still shows original on startup

I'm using a custom title bar in my app and it all works fine except that when the app starts up, the original (standard) android title bar is shown for a brief time before it is replaced by my custom title bar.

This is not a problem when the app is already loaded in memory because the 'delay' is not apparent but if the app is not already in memory, it is very obvious.

There's nothing special about the code :

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, R.layout.window_title);

I thought about changing the style to have no window title and just include my custom title in the top of the layout but that doesn't seem right.

Thanks for any pointers.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1586

Answers (4)

Martin L.
Martin L.

Reputation: 3036

For completeness to Lluis' answer, here's the full code you need to hide the default-title before the custom-title is initiated:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <style name="CustomWindowTitleStyle">
        <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/transparent</item>
    </style>

    <style name="CustomTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo">
        <item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="android:windowTitleBackgroundStyle">@android:color/transparent</item>
        <item name="android:windowTitleSize">50dp</item>
        <item name="android:windowTitleStyle">@style/CustomWindowTitleStyle</item>
    </style>

</resources>

Upvotes: 1

lluis
lluis

Reputation: 85

Thomas Devaux has posted a smart solution. It worked in my app

Change the windowTitleBackgroundStyle to use color “@android:color/transparent”. Also create a style for the text “android:windowTitleStyle” and set its “android:textColor” >to transparent as well.

Upvotes: 1

hankystyles
hankystyles

Reputation: 511

Are you able to use an app theme to set a custom title globally for your app? See here for a pretty good example. I had a similar problem and i seem to remember going this route fixed it.

Upvotes: 0

Jimmar
Jimmar

Reputation: 4449

add a splash screen activity before the main activity loads, should have enough time for the next one to load properly

Upvotes: 0

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