Remove Android App Title Bar

Question

I understand that these properties in the manifest:

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

can remove the title bar. However, I constantly check the Graphical Layout when I am modifying my app. When I look at the Graphical Layout I still see the title bar. I want to remove the title bar in a way that I don't have to see it during the development of the game.

Underbelly

try this in ur mainfest file: <application ....... android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" > – Proclaim

Answer 1

1. In the Design Tab, click on the AppTheme Button

2. Choose the option "AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"

3. Click OK.

Introject

Which version is "current" in your answer? Can't you just specify the name of the button instead of describing the position of it? In my "current" version I can't this mysterious button you are talking about... – Desulphurize

really strange answer... just tell me the name of the button to look for. because things have changed, this answer is pretty useless now – Durra

FTR: this answer is over 4 years old and I do not do Android development with Eclipse anymore. If readers know where to find the name of the button (as it changes from version to version), then do not hesitate to edit it in. – Introject

want hide only bottom navigation bar not the status bar. Is it possible to do? – Deimos

Answer 2

Simple way is to put this in your onCreate():

// Java
getSupportActionBar().hide();

// Kotlin
supportActionBar?.hide()

Frederiksberg

I tried all the other answers for this question, but this is the ONLY ANSWER that worked right away!!! Thanks. – Medusa

Note that for ComponentActivity it is called just actionBar – Acrimony

Answer 3

for Title Bar

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

for fullscreen

getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
            WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

Place this after

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

but before

setContentView(R.layout.xml);

This worked for me.try this

Closed

Putting this after super.onCreate leads to this crash: requestFeature() must be called before adding content – Alibi

add that before setcontent(xml) after super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); – Closed

Does this still work in Marshmallow? Doesn't seem to. – Huckster

Answer 4

I was able to do this for Android 2.1 devices and above using an App Compatibility library theme applied to the app element in the manifest:

<application
    ...
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" />

<style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    ...
   <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
   <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>

Note: You will need to include the com.android.support:appcompat-v7library in your build.gradle file

Champerty

windowNoTitle is critical item to make it works in my case. – Exuviate

Answer 5

There are two options I'd like to present:

1. Change the visibility of the SupportActionBar in JAVA code
2. Choose another Style in your project's style.xml

1: Add getSupportActionBar().hide(); to your onCreate method.

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    getSupportActionBar().hide();
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}

2: Another option is to change the style of your Application. Check out the styles.xml in "app->res->values" and change

<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
</style>

<!-- 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>

Precontract

Answer 6

Just use this

getSupportActionBar().hide();

Samoyed

Answer 7

If you use AppCompat v7, v21

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

Dracaena

Answer 8

Use this to remove title from android app in your Androidmainfest.xml

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

or you can use this in your activity

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); 
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

Tonsorial

want hide only bottom navigation bar not the status bar. Is it possible to do? – Deimos

Answer 9

If you have import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity; and your class extends ActionBarActivity then use this in your OnCreate:

android.support.v7.app.ActionBar AB=getSupportActionBar();
AB.hide();

Cumulation

Out of all the answers here, this is the only one that worked for me! – Expeditionary

Answer 10

In the graphical editor, make sure you have chosen your theme at the top.

Mathian

Answer 11

It's obvious, but the App Theme selection in design is just for display a draft during layout edition, is not related to real app looking in cell phone.

Just change the manifest file (AndroidManifest.xml) is not enough because the style need to be predefined is styles.xml. Also is useless change the layout files.

All proposed solution in Java or Kotlin has failed for me. Some of them crash the app. And if one never (like me) uses the title bar in app, the static solution is cleaner.

For me the only solution that works in 2019 (Android Studio 3.4.1) is:

in styles.xml (under app/res/values) add the lines:

   <style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
    </style>

After in AndroidManifest.xml (under app/manifests)

Replace

android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

by

android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar">

Krakow

Answer 12

Title bar in android is called Action bar. So if you want to remove it from any specific activity, go to AndroidManifest.xml and add the theme type. Such as android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar".

Example:

<activity
    android:name=".SplashActivity"
    android:noHistory="true"
    android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

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

Expect

Answer 13

In your res/values/styles.xml of modern Android Studio projects (2019/2020) you should be able to change the default parent theme

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">

I went one step further and had it look like 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>
    <item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
</style>

This is based on the code generated from the Microsoft PWA builder https://www.pwabuilder.com/

Dorree

Answer 14

in the graphical layout, you can choose the theme on the toolbar. (the one that looks like a star).

choose the NoTitleBar and have fun.

Laddy

Answer 15

Use this Remove title and image from top.

Before:

setContentView(R.layout.actii);

Write this code:

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

Erosion

Answer 16

Just change the theme in the design view of your activity to NoActionBar like the one here

Soloman

Answer 17

To open the Design window: res->layouts->activity_manifest.xml then click on the "Design" button, next to "Code" and "Split". On the TOP LEFT Corner.

Dockhand

that will just hide it from the design view in android studio. – Latta

Answer 18

Go to res/values/themes and change the third line to .NoActionBar like this in both.

<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="Theme.yourApp" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.NoActionBar">

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