How do you remove the title text from the Android ActionBar

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I m looking through the Holo Light theme  and I can t seem to find the magic style to override to get rid of the title text that briefly shows up when my app first launches   How can I do that

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You can change the style applied to each activity, or if you only want to change the behavior for a specific activity, you can try this:

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

To display title on actionbar, set display options in onCreate()

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

To hide title on actionbar.

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

Details here.

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Simply extends your java file from AppCompatActivity and do this                ActionBar actionBar   getSupportActionBar       support v7 actionBar setTitle

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While all of these are acceptable  if your activity only contains a main activity  you can edit res values styles xml like so    lt resources gt        lt  -- Base application theme  -- gt       lt style name  AppTheme  parent  Theme AppCompat Light NoActionBar  gt           lt  -- Customize your theme here  -- gt           lt item name  colorPrimary  gt  color colorPrimary lt  item gt           lt item name  colorPrimaryDark  gt  color colorPrimaryDark lt  item gt           lt item name  colorAccent  gt  color colorAccent lt  item gt       lt  style gt    lt  resources gt    I ve updated parent and added the  NoActionBar property to the Light theme from Android Studios Create Blank Application Wizard

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Got it  You have to override  android actionBarStyle   and then in your custom style you have to override  android titleTextStyle   Here s a sample    In my themes xml    lt style name  CustomActionBar  parent  android style Theme Holo Light  gt           lt item name  android actionBarStyle  gt  style CustomActionBarStyle lt  item gt   lt  style gt    And in my styles xml    lt style name  CustomActionBarStyle  parent  android style Widget Holo ActionBar  gt           lt item name  android titleTextStyle  gt  style NoTitleText lt  item gt           lt item name  android subtitleTextStyle  gt  style NoTitleText lt  item gt   lt  style gt    lt style name  NoTitleText  gt           lt item name  android textSize  gt 0sp lt  item gt           lt item name  android textColor  gt  00000000 lt  item gt   lt  style gt    I m not sure why setting the textSize to zero didn t do the trick  it shrunk the text  but didn t make it go away   but setting the textColor to transparent works

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Write this statement under    setContentView R layout activity main    getSupportActionBar   setDisplayShowTitleEnabled false     if  extending AppCompactActivity use getSupportActionbar   if extending Activity use getActionBar   else it may give   null pointer exception   using  android label    in AndroidManifest xml  for activity also works but your app won t appear in Recently used apps

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i use this code in App manifest    lt application         android allowBackup  true          android icon   drawable ic launcher          android logo   drawable logo2          android label   string title text          android theme   style Theme Zinoostyle   gt    my logo file is 200 800 pixel  and use this code in main activity java  getActionBar   setDisplayShowTitleEnabled false     it will work Corectly

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Use the following   requestWindowFeature Window FEATURE NO TITLE

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you have two choice   first   getActionBar   setDisplayShowTitleEnabled false     If usign getActionBar   produced null pointer exception  you should use getSupportActionBar    Second  getSupportActionBar   setTitle  your title      or   getSupportActionBar   setDisplayShowTitleEnabled false   getSupportActionBar   hide

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as a workaround just add this line incase you have custom action toolbars  this setTitle        in your Activity

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In your manifest xml page you can give address to your activity label  the address is somewhere in your values strings xml   then you can change the value of the tag in xml file to null    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt resources gt       lt string name  title main activity  gt  lt  string gt   lt  resources gt

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I am new to Android so maybe I am wrong   but to solve this problem cant we just go to the manifest and remove the activity label   lt activity         android name   Bcft          android screenOrientation  portrait             android label     gt      Worked for me

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ActionBar actionBar   getActionBar    actionBar setTitle

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I think this is the right answer    lt style name  AppTheme  parent  Theme Sherlock Light DarkActionBar  gt       lt item name  actionBarStyle  gt  style Widget Styled ActionBar lt  item gt       lt item name  android actionBarStyle  gt  style Widget Styled ActionBar lt  item gt   lt  style gt    lt style name  Widget Styled ActionBar  parent  Widget Sherlock Light ActionBar Solid Inverse  gt       lt item name  android displayOptions  gt showHome useLogo lt  item gt       lt item name  displayOptions  gt showHome useLogo lt  item gt   lt  style gt

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Try    getActionBar   setDisplayShowTitleEnabled false     For v 7    getSupportActionBar   setDisplayShowTitleEnabled false

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I m very new to Android so correct me if I m wrong  but I think if you decide to use navigation tabs on the Action Bar  they seemed to not be completely left aligned because the title text color is only transparent and hasn t gone away    lt style name  CustomActionBarStyle  parent   android style Widget Holo ActionBar  gt        lt item name  android displayOptions  gt useLogo showHome lt  item gt   lt  style gt    worked for me

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The only thing that really worked for me was to add    lt activity      android name   ActivityHere      android label     gt

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getSupportActionBar   setDisplayShowTitleEnabled false       getSupportActionBar   hide      hope this will help

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In your Manifest   lt activity android name   ActivityHere       android label    gt

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I tried this  This will help -   Toolbar toolbar    Toolbar  findViewById R id toolbar       setSupportActionBar toolbar       getSupportActionBar   setDisplayShowTitleEnabled false     getSupportActionBar should be called after setSupportActionBar  thus setting the toolbar  otherwise  NullpointerException because there is no toolbar set   Hope this helps

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If you only want to do it for one activity and perhaps even dynamically  you can also use  ActionBar actionBar   getActionBar    actionBar setDisplayOptions actionBar getDisplayOptions     ActionBar DISPLAY SHOW TITLE

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