Remove "Done" button of ActionMode

Question

0I'm using startActionMode(ActionMode) on my app.

By default it's add a "Done" button on the bar, I want to remove it.

Also, if there's a way to change it's text, I want to know too, cause a different description than "Done" can make the action be correspondent to the behaviour of what it does.

Answer 1

I agree with @CommonsWare that it is invalid design to hide the Done button.

However, there are customers that want to have this button removed and I can understand that the checkmark may cause confusion to users because it actually does nothing in some cases.

So, here is how to remove the button with styles:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo">
    <item name="android:actionModeCloseButtonStyle">@style/NoCloseButton</item>
</style>

<style name="NoCloseButton" parent="@android:style/Widget.ActionButton.CloseMode">
    <item name="android:visibility">gone</item>
</style>