How to disable action bar permanently

android android-actionbar
Biji picture Biji · Dec 10, 2011 · Viewed 280.7k times · Source

I can hide the action bar in honeycomb using this code:

getActionBar().hide();

But when the keyboard opens, and user copy-pastes anything, the action bar shows again. How can I disable the action bar permanently?

Answer

monchote picture monchote · Apr 25, 2012

If you are using Theme.Holo.Light and want to use the Theme.Holo.Light.NoActionBar variant on pre 3.2 devices you can add this to your styles.xml:

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

and then set it as your activity's theme:

<activity android:theme="@style/NoActionBar" ... />

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