Center title of activity in android action bar

Question

Right now the title of my activity shows to the left as < Title and then the other menu item shows to the right. I want to center my title and leave out the

Answer 1

Just use a custom view for your actionbar in your activity...

ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
actionBar.setCustomView(R.layout.actionbar_layout);
actionBar.setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM, ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false); // Remove '<' next to home icon.

The view could probably be something like this: