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

There are two simple and quick solutions

go to res-->values-->styles

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Solution 1:

You can remove the action bar by replacing

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">

to

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">

Solution2:

Simply add these lines

<item name="windowActionBar">false</item> <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>

So now your style file look like this

`

<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>
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>

</style>

`

Answer 2

Just put parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar" in your style.xml file

Like - <style parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar" name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">

Answer 3

This is how I solved the problem. Add below code in your AndroidMainfest.xml

<activity android:name=".YourClass"
            android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
 </activity>

Answer 4

Add this in your values/styles.xml

<style name="YourCustomTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
</style>

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="YourCustomTheme">

</style>

<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">

</style>

And add the following code in your values-v11/styles.xml and values-v14/styles.xml

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="YourCustomTheme">

</style>

Thats it. It will work.

Answer 5

If you get the error on this line:

setSupportActionBar(...);

You need to check if your activity is referring to a theme that contains a toolbar. Your application's AppTheme might already contain a toolbar, such as

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">

and you are trying to add a second one. If you want to use your application's AppTheme, you need to remove the theme from your activity, in the manifest.xml file.

For example:

<activity
    android:name=".ui.activities.SettingsActivity"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme1" /> --> remove this theme

Answer 6

You need to change

  <activity
        android:name=".YOUR ACTIVITY"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar" />
</application>`

these lines in the manifest.It will perfectly work for me.