Android how to get AppCompat.Translucent type theme with support actionbar?

Question

I would like to add the support actionbar to one of my activities, I previously had been using the theme.translucent with this activity but in order to make the support acti

Answer 1

Cameron's answer is a nice hack , but it produced a floating action bar and tinted my status bar, which i didn't wanted . So i added more xml attributes for making status bar transparent(for sdk >=19) and used java code for making action bar invisible.

mainActivity.java :

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        getSupportActionBar().hide();
     ...
    }
     ...
}

styles.xml

manifest.xml

    
        ...