How to hide Android ActionBar in Xamarin.Forms?

Question

How can I hide the ActionBar of an Activity in Xamarin.Forms? I tried the following but none of it worked:

• calling ActionBar.Hide() in OnCreate()
• setting the theme to "@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.NoActionBar"

Answer 1

you can just hide it in your constructor

public partial class MyPage : ContentPage
{
    public MyPage()
    {
        NavigationPage.SetHasNavigationBar(this, false);
        InitializeComponent();            
    }        
}

Answer 2

Just found the solution parallel to @Pete. It seems that this is a bug under Xamarin.Forms at the moment.

I added this in my Styles.xml and set the theme to my Activity:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<resources> 
    <style name="NoActionBarTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/invisible_action_bar_style</item>
    </style>
    <style name="invisible_action_bar_style" parent="android:Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:height">0dp</item>
    </style>

</resources>