How to prevent the Android title bar from covering the first view item?

Question

I've tried a bunch of different permutations setting padding, height, etc, and different layout attributes, but still can't figure out why the Android title bar covers the first View item (EditText).

The layout xml looks like this:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="#0099cc"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context=".Blotter" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/order_entry"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="@string/dummy_order"
        android:keepScreenOn="true"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:textAlignment="center"
        android:textColor="#33b5e5"
        android:textSize="26sp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/status"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:keepScreenOn="true"
        android:text="@string/dummy_content"
        android:textAlignment="center"
        android:textColor="#33b5e5"
        android:textSize="24sp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

    <GridView
        android:id="@+id/orders"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_above="@id/status"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_below="@id/order_entry" />

</RelativeLayout>

And the result in the emulator looks like this:

Android screen shot It's a little hard to see, but I circled the EditText view which the title overlaps. The rendering in the Eclipse ADT Graphical Layout view looks fine, though.

Are you using an action bar library such as ActionBarSherlock? Are you using fragments? or using http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/Window.html#FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY ? Post the code on how you are using that layout. Meanwhile, here's another question that might be related to your problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19635440/custom-layout-with-actionbar-in-appcompat-causes-content-to-overlap-with-action — frozenkoi, Nov 11 '13 at 21:39
@frozenkoi: this was just a basic, starter project. No ActionBar, and generally taking the default settings when creating Eclipse Android project. I'll post the code shortly (but there's pretty much nothing to see). Somehow just the default Xml settings doesn't prevent the title from overlapping first View item. — Sam Goldberg, Nov 12 '13 at 16:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '13 at 18:51

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Have you try to use requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); yet? It's will be called in onCreated in your Activity like this:

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

answered Nov 11 '13 at 18:51

justHooman

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Well, I kind of liked having the title visible... Is it standard to hide the title? – Sam Goldberg Nov 11 '13 at 19:06
Those calls above will completely hide the title. Do your theme have FullScreen feature? Because, I think the content layout is below the title by default – justHooman Nov 11 '13 at 19:40
The project setup (by default) has `android:Theme.Light`. – Sam Goldberg Nov 11 '13 at 20:07

How to prevent the Android title bar from covering the first view item?

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