Remove application icon and title from Honeycomb action bar

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How can I remove the application icon & title which comes by default in an action bar?

There is a similar question here: Can i hide the App Icon from the Action Bar in Honeycomb?, but it doesn't talk about how to do it?

score 129 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 16 '11 at 19:18

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Call setDisplayShowHomeEnabled() and setDisplayShowTitleEnabled() on ActionBar, which you get via a call to getActionBar().

edited Oct 16 '11 at 19:18

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answered Apr 19 '11 at 18:15

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Any way to remove the icon through XML? – James Oct 28 '11 at 06:15
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Just figured it out... you use abDisplayOptions and set your desired combination of useLogo, showHome, homeAsUp, showTitle, and showCustom. I wanted just the title with no icon, so I did `showTitle` – James Oct 28 '11 at 06:20
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@James tried your xml letter for letter and that did not work (obviously), so to save others finding the correct thing it's e.g. `useLogo|showHome|showTitle` – Cel Mar 18 '12 at 17:27
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@Cel I'm pretty sure it's because I used Action Bar Sherlock and you did not. That's why the names are different, but otherwise the code is basically the same. I should've used the standard action bar to cover the more general case. Sorry! – James Mar 24 '12 at 16:50
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yes it works perfectly but it also removes homeUpIndicatior from actionbar so if need HomeUpIcon and no need of logo icon then you can just set getActionBar.setIcon(R.color.transparent); – Krishna Shrestha Sep 08 '13 at 05:45

Bert Regelink · Answer 2 · 2012-11-10T00:04:02.100

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If you want to do it the XML way, then define a style (XML file) in the /res/values-v11/ folder with the following contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="MyTheme" parent="android:style/Theme.Holo">
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBarStyle</item>
    </style>

    <style name="MyActionBarStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:displayOptions"></item>
    </style>
</resources>

In your AndroidManifest.xml set the theme defined above for your activity:

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

This will remove the icon and the title and only display the action items. If you just want the title to be displayed, the use:

<item name="android:displayOptions">showTitle</item>

Or just the application logo:

<item name="android:displayOptions">showHome</item>

Or both (default)

<item name="android:displayOptions">showHome|showTitle</item>

Other options are available too, like: showCustom, useLogo, homeAsUp

edited Nov 10 '12 at 00:04

answered Aug 23 '12 at 16:11

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does this work with Action Bar sherlock? I am trying it but I cant get it to work. – Joel Dean Aug 04 '13 at 17:27
this isnt working with me, it needs API 11 and I want to support earlier versions – Kaloyan Roussev Oct 12 '13 at 09:21
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To get it to work for API < 11 (AppCompat) simply repeat the repeat the `item` entries in the `style` blocks **without** "android:" in the `name`. This accesses the AppCompat attributes which need to be overridden for the new styles to work. – Abid H. Mujtaba Nov 27 '13 at 05:38
if you are displaying a logo instead of an icon (in the action bar), you want to use showHome|useLogo, if you only use "useLogo", it is not going to work. This is just an apart :) – yat0 Oct 17 '14 at 01:36

score 15 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 30 '13 at 20:36

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Try

getActionBar.setIcon(R.color.transparent);

answered Jul 30 '13 at 20:36

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Wouldn't that just hide (not remove) it? – Leigh Jul 30 '13 at 20:57
Yes, that will hide it. – Adí Jul 31 '13 at 17:20
But is that the same as "removing it"? Typically, non-visible elements still take up space. But *removed* elements do not. So does the above actually achieve the same effect as the [accepted answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/5720773/104223). – Leigh Jul 31 '13 at 17:35
Kind of. It does not take up any space. – Adí Jul 31 '13 at 19:29
UPDATE: You can also add a transparent PNG in the dimensions of the ActionBarSherlock Icons, that would make sure you have enough space to tap on the default Back button on top left. – Adí Sep 12 '13 at 13:03
Im getting an error message here - transparent is underlined. – Kaloyan Roussev Oct 12 '13 at 09:21
You need to add the property - #00000000 in color – Adí Oct 13 '13 at 21:55
or just replace getActionBar.setIcon(R.color.transparent); with getActionBar.setIcon(android.R.color.transparent); – Alberto Maluje Sep 09 '14 at 19:52

Pedro Lobito · Answer 4 · 2014-04-09T20:12:04.967

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This will help you:

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
        actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
        actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

        //the rest of your code...
}

edited Apr 09 '14 at 20:12

answered Apr 09 '14 at 17:48

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 08 '14 at 09:59

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actionBar.setIcon(R.color.transparent);

actionBar.setTitle("");

answered Jul 08 '14 at 09:59

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 01 '14 at 09:02

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Try this in onCreate()

ActionBar actionbar=getSupportActionBar();
actionbar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);
actionbar.setIcon(android.R.color.transparent);

user android.R.color.transparent

answered Oct 01 '14 at 09:02

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 10 '13 at 05:33

Try this combination

    getSupportActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(false);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
    getSupportActionBar().setIcon(R.color.transparent);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(true)

score -2 · Answer 8 · answered Jan 17 '15 at 21:54

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If you are looking to simply remove the entire actiobar, you can try the hide method for actionBars:

getActionbar().hide();

answered Jan 17 '15 at 21:54

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