Question

I added a custom title-bar to an android application and this titlebar (which is a plain png) shows up inside the main activity. The problem is that the main activity also defines the name of the application using the label tag like this:

<activity android:name=".MainActivity" 
                  android:theme="@style/customTheme"
                  android:screenOrientation="portrait"
                  android:label="@string/app_name">
              <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
              </intent-filter>
 </activity>

And this label is also reported on the titlebar! How to dissociate the two? (Like basically, still be able to give a name to the application without affecting my custom title-bar).

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can change the header of any activity by using setTitle("THE TITLE"); in the java code for the page. If you want to use a string defined in the XML FILES, you can use setTitle(R.string.stringName).