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Asked: 2026-06-09T16:52:54+00:00

I added an action bar with a dropdown menu to my activity but it

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I added an action bar with a dropdown menu to my activity but it also shows the application name.

Each of my activities has an action bar and each of them use the theme @android:style/Theme.Holo.Light. One one my activity screens I would like to display the action bar with the dropdown/spinner menu but I would like to hide the application title.

I saw this solution on another SO post but it required me changing the global theme settings and if I’ve understood correctly, that approach would remove the title from all my action bars.

How can I do this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    For this kind of simple stuff you just have to go to the source to find the answer:
    here the full explanation: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html#Dropdown

    and here some guide code, to include the spinner on the action bar:

     ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
 actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_LIST);

    after that is just put a listener for the changes and setting the a spinner adapter.

    and you can use:

     setTitle("");

    to remove the title.
    I’ve been checking on my codes here, you can also give a try on:

     requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

    It should just remove the title, and leave the title bar. Remember that you must call this before setContentView

    happy coding.

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