This Activity already has an action bar supplied by the window decor

Question

Trying to move over my stuff to use Toolbar instead of action bar but I keep getting an error saying

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start         


        

Answer 1

Simply put, you can do the following:-

if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 21) {
        Window window = getWindow();
        window.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS);
        window.clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS);
        window.setStatusBarColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.colorPrimaryDark));

    }

Answer 2

I had toolbar added in my xml. Then in my activity i was adding this statement:

setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

Removing this worked for me. I hope it helps someone.

Answer 3

Add this two line in your app theme located in style.xml:-

 <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>

    //Add this two line will fix your problem
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>   <--1(this applies after 22.0.1 support library i think 
    <item name="windowActionBar">true</item> <--2

Answer 4

Use this inside your application tag in manifest or inside your Activity tag.

android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar"

Answer 5

Or Simply change the @Style/AppTheme

<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">

This works for me!

Answer 6

Go to the 'style.xml' of your project and make windowActionBar to false

<style name="AppCompatTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
        <item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
</style>