How to to hide action bar (Theme.Holo) if Android version below 3.0

Question

I notice the action bar (Theme.Holo) looks cool only in android 3.0 or heigher, but it doesn't like nice on for example Android 2.3.

is there away to show the action bar ( Theme.Holo) based on Android version?

Answer 1

The action bar requires API 11 minimum. If you want to remove it programatically though you can use hide() in the code for that activity.

ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.hide();

Not really sure what it would show for anything below 3.0, but it seems like the best place to start.

Edit:

You can check the SDK version at run time with the Build constants

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) { //checks if its lower than Honeycomb
    ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
    actionBar.hide();
}