hide action bar of main activity

Question

I want to hide action bar of only one activity - main activity .

I am extending AppCompatActivity. For some reasons I don't want to change it to ActionBar

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

I've tried u sing getActionBar() , getSupportActionBar() methods but all of them are giving NPE( NullPointerException ). That is because of using AppCompatActivity that removes the native compatibility of actionbar methods.

Is there a way to hide the action bar from only the main activity screen without extending to ActionBar ??

Answer 1

Use different themes in defferent activities. theme is the attribute, which you can set not only in <application> tag, but also in <activity> .

It the theme where you want to get rid of actionbar, you can use these

<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
 <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>