How to remove title text from Android ActionBar?

Question

I am looking at the Holo.Light theme and I can’t find a magical style to override to get rid of the title text that briefly appears when my application starts for the first time.

How can i do this?

Answer 1

Got it. You have to override

 android:actionBarStyle 

and then in your custom style you need to override

 android:titleTextStyle 

Here is an example.

In my theme.xml:

 <style name="CustomActionBar" parent="android:style/Theme.Holo.Light"> <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/CustomActionBarStyle</item> </style> 

And in my styles.xml:

 <style name="CustomActionBarStyle" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar"> <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/NoTitleText</item> <item name="android:subtitleTextStyle">@style/NoTitleText</item> </style> <style name="NoTitleText"> <item name="android:textSize">0sp</item> <item name="android:textColor">#00000000</item> </style> 

I'm not sure why setting textSize to zero didn’t do this trick (it squeezed the text but didn’t make it go away), but setting the transparency of textColor works.

Answer 2

Try:

  getActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); 

For v.7:

  getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); 

Answer 3

I think this is the correct answer:

 <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar"> <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item> <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item> </style> <style name="Widget.Styled.ActionBar" parent="Widget.Sherlock.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse"> <item name="android:displayOptions">showHome|useLogo</item> <item name="displayOptions">showHome|useLogo</item> </style> 

Answer 4

I'm very new to Android, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that if you decide to use the navigation tabs in the action bar, they don't seem to be fully aligned because the title text color will only be transparent and not gone .

 <style name="CustomActionBarStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar"> <item name="android:displayOptions">useLogo|showHome</item> </style> 

worked for me.

Answer 5

In your manifest

 <activity android:name=".ActivityHere" android:label=""> 

Answer 6

Record this statement in

 setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); 

if the extension AppCompactActivity uses getSupportActionbar() , if the extension is used to use getActionBar() otherwise it can give

 null pointer exception 

using android:label="" in AndroidManifest.xml for activity also works, but your application will not appear in Recently used apps

Answer 7

You have two options:

the first:

 getActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); 

If usign getActionBar() caused a null pointer exception, you should use getSupportActionBar()

Second

 getSupportActionBar().setTitle("your title"); 

or

 getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); getSupportActionBar().hide(); 

Answer 8

I use this code in the App manifest

 <application android:allowBackup="true" android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" android:logo="@drawable/logo2" android:label="@string/title_text" android:theme="@style/Theme.Zinoostyle" > 

my logo is 200 * 800 pixels and use this code in main activity.java

 getActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); 

he will work corectly

Answer 9

You can change the style that applies to each action, or if you want to change the behavior for a specific action, you can try the following:

 setDisplayOptions(int options, int mask) --- Set selected display or setDisplayOptions(int options) --- Set display options. 

To display the title in the action bar, set the display options to onCreate ()

 getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE, ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE); 

To hide the title in the action bar.

 getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(0, ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE); 

More details here .

Answer 10

I have tried this. It will help -

 Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar); setSupportActionBar(toolbar); getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); 

getSupportActionBar should be called after setSupportActionBar, thereby setting up the toolbar, otherwise a NullpointerException, because there is no toolbar. Hope this helps

Answer 11

 getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); getSupportActionBar().hide(); 

hope this helps

Answer 12

Use the following:

 requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); 

Answer 13

If you want to do this for just one action, and perhaps even dynamically, you can also use

 ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar(); actionBar.setDisplayOptions(actionBar.getDisplayOptions() ^ ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE); 

Answer 14

The only thing that really worked for me was to add:

 <activity android:name=".ActivityHere" android:label="" > 

Answer 15

as a workaround, just add this line if you have custom actions / toolbars

 this.setTitle(""); 

in your activity

Answer 16

Although all of them are acceptable, if your activity contains only the main action, you can edit res\values\styles.xml as follows:

 <resources> <!-- 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> </resources> 

I updated parent and added the .NoActionBar property to the Light theme from the Android Studios Create Blank Application wizard.

Answer 17

Just extends your Java file from AppCompatActivity and does this:

 ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar(); // support.v7 actionBar.setTitle(" "); 

Answer 18

On the manifest.xml page, you can specify the address of your activity label. the address is somewhere in your /strings.xml values. then you can change the tag value in the xml file to null.

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <string name="title_main_activity"></string> </resources> 

Answer 19

I am new to Android, so maybe I'm wrong ... but to solve this problem we can’t just go to the manifest and remove the activity shortcut

 <activity android:name=".Bcft" android:screenOrientation="portrait" **android:label="" >** 

Worked for me ....

Answer 20

 ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar(); actionBar.setTitle("");