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

ElectronicGeeks answer is correct.

For API lower than 11, Use:

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

If you're on API level 14 or above and are not using ActionbarSherlock, this code in onCreateOptionsMenu will disable the up button, remove the left caret, and remove the icon:

ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
if (actionBar != null) {
    actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(false); // disable the button
    actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false); // remove the left caret
    actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false); // remove the icon
}

source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24967862/2887103

Answer 4

This worked for me :)

    ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
    actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);

Answer 5

In case where you have used toolbar as Action bar:-

Toolbar toolbar = findViewById(R.id.toolbar); setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

Use the below code to hide navigation button:-

toolbar.setNavigationIcon(null);

Answer 6

Use getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false) to remove the home button from the action bar.