Android: Theme.Holo.Light.NoActionBar vs Theme.Light.NoTitleBar

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In res/values-v11/styles.xml, I can't use Theme.Holo.Light.NoActionBar because it was added in API level 13. Can I use Theme.Light.NoTitleBar instead, with no visual differences? As far as I can tell, they should both have a white background, status and navigation bars, and nothing else.

Answer

Alexander Lucas picture Alexander Lucas · Dec 27, 2012

Theme.Light.NoTitleBar is slightly different. The easiest way to resolve this and stay compatible back to Honeycomb is to create your own style that extends Theme.Holo.Light, but removes the Action Bar. Just create a style with the following definition:

<style name="MyTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>

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