titanium android custom theme no window actionbar

Question

I've an android app written using titanium sdk. the new sdk ( 3.5.0GA ) changed things about managing the default window title and actionbar behaviour.

the official blog offers 3 ways to solve this problem ( official doc ):

the first solution ( $.index.activity.actionBar.hide(); ) has a problem: the actionbar is shown for a while before being hidden. that animation is not what I want.

the second solution would be better if I can make it works ( customtheme.xml )

my situation is as follows:

tiapp.xml

<android xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="14" android:targetSdkVersion="19"/>
    <manifest>
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>
        <application android:theme="@style/MyTheme"/>
        <application android:hardwareAccelerated="true"/>
        <application android:largeHeap="true"/>
    </manifest>
</android>

/platform/android/res/values/customtheme.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <resources>
    <style name="MyTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    </style>
</resources> 

the same thing done with a plain android studio project, does the magic.

actually, the error I got, is

[ERROR] :  /Users/dariorusignuolo/Desktop/titanium-cocktailsmachine/CM/build/android/AndroidManifest.xml:14: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'theme' with value '@style/Theme.AppCompat.Translucent.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen').

it seems to me that the App compat library is missing (I have installed the android support library v 21.0.3 )

I don't know how to solve my problem. anybody knows?

ps. didn't try the third option, but just want to make the second one works. less code lines...

Answer 1

the solution to solve my problem was to (thanks to turle for the help):

in the platform/res/values/MyTheme.xml

<resources>
    <style name="MyTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat">
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    </style>

</resources>

and to edit the manifest through the tiapp.xml this way

<android xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <tool-api-level>14</tool-api-level>
    <manifest>
        <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="14" android:targetSdkVersion="14"/>
        <application android:theme="@style/MyTheme"/>
    </manifest> 
</android>

maybe you that encountered this problem should project -> clean to see the theme been applied

hope this helps