How do you remove the title text from the Android ActionBar?

Question

I\'m looking through the Holo.Light theme, and I can\'t seem to find the magic style to override to get rid of the title text that briefly shows up when my app

Answer 1

Write this statement under

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

if extending AppCompactActivity use getSupportActionbar() if extending Activity use getActionBar() else it may give

null pointer exception

using android:label="" in AndroidManifest.xml for activity also works but your app won't appear in Recently used apps