Remove icon/logo from action bar on android

Question

I've been trying to find some way of removing the icon/logo from the action bar but the only thing I've found after an hour of searching SO, Android's documentation and Google is how to remove the title bar in whole. That is not what I want. Only want to remove the icon/logo from the title bar.

Any one know how to accomplish this? Preferably I'd like to do this in XML.

Solution 1

If you've defined android:logo="..." in the <application> tag of your AndroidManifest.xml, then you need to use this stuff to hide the icon:

pre-v11 theme

<item name="logo">@android:color/transparent</item>

v11 and up theme

<item name="android:logo">@android:color/transparent</item>

The use of these two styles has properly hidden the action bar icon on a 2.3 and a 4.4 device for me (this app uses AppCompat).

Solution 2

Add the following code in your action bar styles:

<item name="android:displayOptions">showHome|homeAsUp|showTitle</item>
<item name="displayOptions">showHome|homeAsUp|showTitle</item>
<item name="android:icon">@android:color/transparent</item> <!-- This does the magic! -->

PS: I'm using Actionbar Sherlock and this works just fine.

Solution 3

If you do not want the icon in particular activity.

getActionBar().setIcon(
   new ColorDrawable(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.transparent)));    

Solution 4

This worked for me

getActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);

Solution 5

Calling

mActionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

in addition to,

mActionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);

will hide the logo but display the Home As Up icon. :)

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Comments

[Mgamerz]

You could have just read the API guide on the actionbar. It says it right in the guide.

[Hrafn]

Every piece of information is somewhere to be found.

[DForck42]

can you show us what you've tried? what you've found previously that doesn't work?

[Hrafn]

@DForck42 This question is really not relevant anymore (almost 4 years old). You can find plenty of ways of achieving this in the answers here below.

[Igor Čordaš]

Quite a nice trick, thanks! It even stops taking up space in action bar!

[Boy]

getActionBar().setIcon(android.R.color.transparent); seems to be sufficient

[Jagdeep Singh]

Thanks ..it worked in code also... actionBar.setIcon(android.R.color.transparent);

[Bytecode]

Excellent answer ...:)

[Ron]

LOL'd at the comment! Great and simple answer.

[horkavlna]

call method getActionBar().... is better solution this problem (remove icon from action bar) because if you use navigation bar and action bar , so your action bar will be above navigation bar. If you use setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false) so navigation bar will be over action bar and you don't want this.

[Roger Keays]

This puts the action bar under the tabs / navigation bar. Apparently this behaviour is "by design" ... code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=36191

[Matt W]

Some Samsung devices display @android:color/transparent as BLACK. Seems crazy, but many device manufacturers override Android's default settings; including colors. Because of this, I would create a color in colors.xml like this: <color name="transparent">#00000000</color> and reference that instead of getting the value from Android.

[Hristo Valkanov]

Welcome to Stack overflow! Usually answers similar to yours are considered rather low quality. For future reference you should consider adding some explanations about the code you provided and you should structure better the code (add 4 spaces to the beginning of each line, or select it all and click the {} symbol above the text box.) Also, you should pay more attention to the date of the question (over a year ago) and the fact that it's been already answered (the green check sign). Good luck on your programming :)

[Jose_GD]

Just wondering why both android:displayOptions and displayOptions? Furthermore, they're not related to the solution, what makes the "magic" is setting the icon color to transparent

[Nilzor]

@jose_GD: android:displayOptions is v11 and up only, so you need both to be backwards compatible.

[lytridic]

getSupportActionBar().setIcon(android.R.color.transparent)

[Aedis]

I would change this to: ColorDrawable cd = new ColorDrawable(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.transp‌​arent)); cd.setBounds(0,0,0,0); getActionBar().setIcon(cd); Without setting the bounds, the transparent icon still uses up space

[jesses.co.tt]

this works to set hide the icon/title... but it still draws the background (which can be hidden with <item name="android:background">@android:color/transparent</item> ) ... however, the whitespace/padding is still present and my action items are not left justified... thoughts on how to fix that ?

[JohnyTex]

1x1 size transparent .png drawable?

[Rowan]

@Aedis : still shows empty space at left of the actionbar. any suggestions?

[Hrafn]

Not in anyway does this answer the question. I knew about this feature, but I was asking for XML!

[Hrafn]

Not in anyway does this answer the question. I knew about this feature, but I was asking for XML!

[Hrafn]

Not in anyway does this answer the question. I knew about this feature, but I was asking for XML!

[Hrafn]

Not in anyway does this answer the question. I knew about this feature, but I was asking for XML!

[Hrafn]

Not in anyway does this answer the question. I knew about this feature, but I was asking for XML!

[Hrafn]

Not in anyway does this answer the question. I knew about this feature, but I was asking for XML!

[Hrafn]

Not in anyway does this answer the question. I knew about this feature, but I was asking for XML!

[acrespo]

This works, but in my case, when i have a search view and click it/expand it, the my app icon/logo reappears. Any ideas?

[acrespo]

This works, but in my case, when i have a search view and click it/expand it, the my app icon/logo reappears. Any ideas?

[Charles Madere]

@acrespo hmm I know what you're talking about but I haven't investigated a solution for that one, sorry.

[acrespo]

What I ended up doing is setting <application (...) android:logo="@android:color/transparent"> (...) in my AndroidManifest.xml and forcing useLogo for displayOptions in my style like this <item name="android:displayOptions">showHome|useLogo|homeAsUp|show‌​Title</item> <item name="displayOptions">showHome|useLogo|homeAsUp|showTitle</i‌​tem>. This last part was important as in some devices (I think mostly post-lollipop) the damned searchview took the appIcon and put it in place of the logo, even if logo was set as transparent :s

[DiscDev]

This seems like it should be the answer - otherwise you're applying a global solution, which I doubt is what everyone wants. In my case, I want to show the logo on some pages, but other pages it doesn't make sense and clutters the action bar.

[Baron]

This is a better solution: <item name="android:icon">@null</item>

[luiscosta]

This works fine if you haven't set a logo. In my case I had to use setLogo instead of setIcon method. Still, great tip, got me on the right path!!

[hellaandrew]

Is there a good reason why I can't use getActionBar().setIcon(null); ? It seems to be working out for me as well.

[Atul O Holic]

@Hrafn - I thought XML was the preferred answer not the ONLY answer. :( I guess its still helping people. :)