Custom title bar without padding (Android)

Question

So I am using the techniques in this thread to use a custom background for my titlebar. Unfortunately the framework places my layout inside a FrameLayout (

Answer 1

I got rid of the padding by getting the title container and setting the padding to 0. It works on Android 4.

titleContainerId = (Integer)Class.forName("com.android.internal.R$id").getField("title_container").get(null);

ViewGroup vg = ((ViewGroup) getWindow().findViewById(titleContainerId));
vg.setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0);