How to stop using AppCompat in Android Studio?

Question

I\'m new to Android development and I\'m trying to follow Android development guide in Android Studio, specifically trying to set up an action bar.

Answer 1

Step #1: Change your theme away from Theme.AppCompat

Step #2: Remove appcompat-v7 from your list of dependencies in your app module's build.gradle file

Step #3: Change all activities to not inherit from AppCompatActivity or ActionBarActivity, but instead inherit from something else, like Activity

Step #4: Change all menu resources, replacing app: with android:

Step #5: Do a clean rebuild (Build > Clean Project) and fix any lingering compilation errors triggered by the above four steps

Here is a sample project that uses the native action bar.