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Android Build an Interactive Story App (Retired) User Input Hiding the ActionBar with an App Theme

Posted by Yasir Khan
Yasir Khan
3,937 Points

I have a purple bar at the top and an email icon which I cannot get rid off. I am using android 6.0. help please

I cannot get rid of the purple action bar and an email icon which is in the bottom right hand corner of the screen

1 Answer

Ozhan Saat
PLUS
Ozhan Saat
Courses Plus Student 4,002 Points
Ozhan Saat
Ozhan Saat
Courses Plus Student 4,002 Points

If this is when you create a new project try creating it with an Empty activity instead of a Blank activity. Otherwise you can go through the code deleting the relevant bits in the activity and xml. Remove anything that refers to FloatingActionButton and ToolBar in your MainActivity and activity_main.xml.

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar); setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

    FloatingActionButton fab = (FloatingActionButton) findViewById(R.id.fab);
    fab.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            Snackbar.make(view, "Replace with your own action", Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG)
                    .setAction("Action", null).show();
        }
    });
Eva Sylwester
Eva Sylwester
2,617 Points

Thank you! I had the same email icon on the same course, and this fixed it.