android: how to remove the back/home button in the action bar

Question

I am having difficulties trying to remove the back/home button from the action bar.

 getActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);   //disable back button         


        

Answer 1

None of the suggested solutions works for me.

But this one does:

// Hide the back button
mActionBar.setHomeAsUpIndicator(null);

It is a kind of a hack (last resort solution), though, so showing the action bar again means setting its icon back again.