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To keep this simple: I have tabs in my actionbar, but the action bar take up too much space. I want that extra space. I need a way to hide the action bar, yet keep my tabs. Is there anyway to do this? Or is there a way I can get the tabs built into the action bar like it is in landscape mode? Thanks!
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If you want to hide Action Bar from the entire application (from all Activities and fragments), then you can use this method. Just go to res -> values -> styles. xml and change the base application to “Theme. AppCompat.
Way 1: Touch “Settings” -> “Display” -> “Navigation bar” -> “Buttons” -> “Button layout”. Choose the pattern in “Hide navigation bar” -> When the app opens, the navigation bar will be automatically hidden and you can swipe up from the bottom corner of the screen to show it.
If we want to remove the ActionBar only from specific activities, we can create a child theme with the AppTheme as it's parent, set windowActionBar to false and windowNoTitle to true and then apply this theme on an activity level by using the android:theme attribute in the AndroidManifest. xml file.
You can have an empty Actionbar, then the tabs will occupy the space:
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false); getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); Try the below code:
final ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar(); actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS); actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false); actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); Also remove the below in code which is added default when project is created:
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu); return true; } This did the trick for me
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
I also commented the line
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
Ahmad's answer is correct but it requires API 11. For supporting lower APIs, use this code -
setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_STANDARD);
To enable it, use -
setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS)
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