Hide application launcher icon in title bar when activity starts in android - java

I've searched SO but not found similar questions as I'm not sure how to phase it in a sentence. I am using ActionBarSherlock, with a logo instead of the launcher icon (i.e. 72x72 icon) with text in the top corner of the activity.
When the activity loads for the first time, for a fraction of a second. I see the launcher icon and label defined in the manifest (as below), before the action bar appears with the logo. This home activity is very simple, so its not doing any additional loading which could cause a delay.
<application
android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
android:icon="#drawable/launcher_icon"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
<activity
android:name=".SplashScreenActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:logo="#drawable/ab_logo"
android:theme="#android:style/Theme.Light.NoTitleBar" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity
android:name=".HomeActivity"
android:label="#string/homeitle"
android:logo="#drawable/ab_logo"
android:theme="#style/MyTheme" >
</activity>
</application>
I can make the text "disappear" by styling it to be the same colour as the background, but i cant find a way to remove/hide the launcher icon from the activity.
I have setup a splashscreen activity (as in manifest above), which just loads my home activity where the issue occurs. This does help, but sometimes the issue still occurs when loading the activity.
public class SplashScreenActivity extends Activity
{
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}
#Override
public void onResume()
{
super.onResume();
Intent i = new Intent(getBaseContext(), HomeActivity.class);
startActivity(i);
finish();
}
}
Does anyone know of a way to hide the launcher icon & title label, so that it doesn't show up prior to ActionBarSherlock being displayed? Ideally so a splash screen is not needed, as there are several ways to access the activity which would avoid the splashscreen shown above.
--- Update My Theme File ----
<style name="MyTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock.ForceOverflow">
<item name="android:windowBackground">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyTheme.ActionBar</item>
<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#color/white</item>
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/MyTheme.ActionBar</item>
<item name="actionMenuTextColor">#color/white</item>
</style>
<style name="MyTheme.ActionBar" parent="Widget.Sherlock.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">#color/blue</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/MyTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
<item name="android:displayOptions">showHome|useLogo</item>
<item name="displayOptions">showHome|useLogo</item>
<item name="background">#color/blue</item>
<item name="titleTextStyle"> #style/MyTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="MyTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle" parent="#android:style/TextAppearance">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/blue</item>
</style>


Fixed it by adding icon to the style, which is the same as the logo. This overrides the launcher icon.
<style name="MyTheme.ActionBar" parent="Widget.Sherlock.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">#color/infostop_blue</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/MyTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
<item name="android:displayOptions">showHome|useLogo</item>
<item name="displayOptions">showHome|useLogo</item>
<item name="android:icon">#drawable/ab_logo</item>
<item name="icon">#drawable/ab_logo</item>
<item name="background">#color/blue</item>
<item name="titleTextStyle"> #style/MyTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
</style>

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Change launch activity style programmatically

I have an activity (MainActivity.java) that is used as the launch screen while the main fragment is being loaded and other functionality takes place in background. This launch screen shows a brown tile background and an icon always. What I want is to show that backgound (in R.style.AppTheme_NoActionBar_LauncherNight) only when the variable dayMode is false (variable in Constants.java). Otherwise, the background should be the one in R.style.AppTheme_NoActionBar_LauncherDay (a white background and the same icon).
If I specify one or another background in the android:theme part of my Manifest, it is shown nicely. But what I want is to set one theme or another programmatically, depending on the value of dayMode, on the onCreate method of the activity. This is what is not working.
I tried using setTheme before calling super.onCreate or setContentView, as I read in other answers, but it is not working. I only find answers explaining the order in which you should call setTheme and setContentView, but they do not solve this problem.
My styles:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
<item name="autoCompleteTextViewStyle">#style/cursorColor</item>
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">#color/yellow_light</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar.LauncherNight">
<item name="android:windowBackground">#drawable/launch_screen</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar.LauncherDay">
<item name="android:windowBackground">#drawable/launch_screen_day</item>
</style>
My Manifest:
<activity
android:name="com.AlbaRam.myApp.MainActivity"
android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.NoActionBar.LauncherNight"
android:launchMode="singleInstance"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
My ActivityMain:
#Override
protected void
onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
//This is not working
if (Constants.dayMode){
super.setTheme(R.style.AppTheme_NoActionBar_LauncherDay);
} else {
setTheme(R.style.AppTheme_NoActionBar_LauncherNight);
}
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
//rest of functionality
}

After some research I've discovered that this is not possible. Launch screens are used when we want to show something while our main functionality is loading, so we include the drawable we want to show in the Manifest to have this appearing fast while our main activity loads. This launch screen, as it is in the Manifest, appears before anything else, so if we could change the theme of the launch screen dinamically, we would lose that fast appearing while everything else loads.

Try this code
theme.xml
<resources>
<style name="AppThemeLight" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="android:windowAnimationStyle">#style/WindowAnimationTransition</item>
</style>
<style name="AppThemeDark" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="android:windowAnimationStyle">#style/WindowAnimationTransition</item>
</style>
<!-- This will set the fade in animation on all your activities by default -->
<style name="WindowAnimationTransition">
<item name="android:windowEnterAnimation">#android:anim/fade_in</item>
<item name="android:windowExitAnimation">#android:anim/fade_out</item>
</style>
activity
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protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
AppSettings settings = AppSettings.getInstance(this);
setTheme(settings.getBoolean(AppSettings.Key.USE_DARK_THEME) ? R.style.AppThemeDark : R.style.AppThemeLight);
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_transition_theme);
//
}

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
if (Constants.dayMode){
setTheme(android.R.style.yourTheme);
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setTheme(android.R.style.yourTheme);
}
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Title on other Activities

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If you are using Activity with Actionbar enabled theme, then you can use below code to change the title of actionbar in all activity programatically.
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if (actionBar != null) {
actionBar.setTitle("Your Title here");
}
Or you can set the title in manifest itself by:
<activity
android:name="your activity name"
android:label="Your Title Here"/>

In your Activity theme put that:
(I used Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar as an example, but anyone should do)
<style name="yourTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="windowActionBar">true</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
<application
...
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android:theme="#style/yourTheme"> <!-- apply to one activity ->
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Creates a full screen activity but retains the notification bar

I'm creating a music application when designing kits, I think I need to create a full screen activity I have tried
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
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In your theme:
<item name="android:statusBarColor">#android:color/transparent</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowTranslucentStatus">true</item>
In your activity onCreate:
Window window = getWindow();
WindowManager.LayoutParams winParams = window.getAttributes();
winParams.flags &= ~WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS;
window.setAttributes(winParams);
window.getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN);

Remove getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN); this line from your code and just put change int your activity style.
<style name="LoginTheme" 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>
Manifest.xml
<activity android:name=".Login"
android:theme="#style/LoginTheme">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>

Put this code above setContentView()
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY);
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_NO_LIMITS,
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Double Toolbar is Showing

How to remove two toolbars from a fragment?
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Use NoActioonBar Theme instead of Default one in Manifest file
<activity .....
android:theme="#style/Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar"
/>

add no action bar line in manifest
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.NoActionBar" />
then add in your styles.xml
<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>

Android: how to hide ActionBar on certain activities

I've developed a simple demo application with a splash screen a map and some regular screens.
I have an action bar at the top that contains a logo. It all looks fine on my phone (Galaxy s1 I9000 V2.3) but when i test it on Galaxy s2 v4 the action bar appears also in the splash screen and in the map screen.
The spalsh and map activity are not even inheriting from ActionBarActivity so how is that possible and how can i make it go away?
Manifest:
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:theme="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light" >
<activity
android:name=".HomeActivity"
android:icon="#drawable/android_logo"
android:label=""
android:logo="#drawable/android_logo" >
<!--
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
-->
</activity>
<activity
android:name=".MapActivity"
android:label="" >
</activity>
<activity
android:name=".PackageActivity"
android:icon="#drawable/android_logo"
android:label=""
android:logo="#drawable/android_logo" >
</activity>
<activity
android:name=".SplashActivity"
android:label="" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
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Splash Activity:
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
public class SplashActivity extends Activity{
private static final long SPLASH_DISPLAY_LENGTH = 2000;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_splash);
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#Override
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Intent mainIntent = new Intent(SplashActivity.this,HomeActivity.class);
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SplashActivity.this.finish();
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}, SPLASH_DISPLAY_LENGTH);
}
}

As you are asking about how to hide in a certain activity, this is what you need :
getSupportActionBar().hide();

Apply the following in your Theme for the Activity in AndroidManifest.xml:
<activity android:name=".Activity"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>

1.Go to your manifest.xml file.
2.Find the activity tag for which you want to hide your ActionBar and then add ,
android:theme="#style/Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar"
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:theme="#style/Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar"
>

If you want to get full screen without actionBar and Title.
Add it in style.xml
<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
</style>
and use the style at activity of manifest.xml.
<activity ....
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.NoActionBar" > ......
</activity>

The ActionBar usually exists along Fragments so from the Activity you can hide it
getActionBar().hide();
getActionBar().show();
and from the Fragment you can do it
getActivity().getActionBar().hide();
getActivity().getActionBar().show();

This works for me! Put this in your Activity in manifests
<activity
// ...
android:theme="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"
// ...
</activity>
You can also make your custom theme in styles.xml like this:
<style name="Theme.MyCustomTheme" parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name = "android:windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name = "android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
// more custom...
</style>
Hope this help.

If you were using Theme.AppCompat.Light, a better equivalent would be Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar.
I found that using Theme.AppCompat.NoTitleBar caused my button text to be invisible so I am using Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar.
<activity android:name=".Activity"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#android:style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>

To hide the ActionBar add this code into java file.
ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
actionBar.hide();

You can use Low Profile mode
See here
Just search for SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LOW_PROFILE that also dims the navigation buttons if they are present of screen.

Apply the following in your Theme for the Activity in AndroidManifest.xml:
<activity android:name=".DashboardActivity"
android:theme="#style/AppFullScreenTheme">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
Then Apply the following in your Style in style.xml
<style name="AppFullScreenTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
<item name="android:windowContentOverlay">#null</item>
</style>

The above answers would help with the ActionBar thing. To add to it, use the following code in case you are using the Splash Screen:
Use this before you set the content view:
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
Just to clarify, here's how you do it:
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);         
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
This would make your screen a full screen, i.e remove the top bar where you see the network bar, etc

#Override
public void onResume() {
super.onResume();
getSupportActionBar().hide();
}
#Override
public void onStop() {
super.onStop();
getSupportActionBar().show();
}

For selectively hiding Actionbar in activities:
Add the following code to onCreate (preferably on the last line of the function)
Kotlin:
supportActionBar?.hide()
Java:
getSupportActionBar().hide();

This works in API 27
In the styles.xml replace code to the following....
<resources>
<!-- No Action Bar -->
<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>
</resources>
Then in the files (eg. activity_list.xml) in which you do want to have a toolbar put the following code.
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:background="#color/colorPrimary"/>
If you have problems switch to linear layout (because that is what this code is tested on)

From here:
Beginning with Android 3.0 (API level 11), all activities that use the default theme have an ActionBar as an app bar. However, app bar features have gradually been added to the native ActionBar over various Android releases. As a result, the native ActionBar behaves differently depending on what version of the Android system a device may be using. By contrast, the most recent features are added to the support library's version of Toolbar, and they are available on any device that can use the support library.
So one option is to disable ActionBar completely (in the app manifest.xml file) and then add Toolbar in every page that needs an ActionBar.
(follow the above link for step-by-step explanation)

Add New Style in your style.xml
<!-- 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>
<style name="LoginTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
</style>
and then add following line in your manifest
<activity android:name=".Login"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/LoginTheme"
>

If you activity extends AppCompatActivity then you can add this line
super.getSupportActionBar().hide(); before setContentView()

Replace AndroidManifest.xml
android:theme="#style/FullscreenTheme"
to
android:theme="#style/Theme.Design.NoActionBar"

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First cheek MainActivity for activity tag,Like -
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity
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android:theme="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"
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