Android — How to disscociate the name of the application from the titlebar?

Question

I added a custom title-bar to an android application and this titlebar (which is a plain png) shows up inside the main activity. The problem is that the main activity also defines the name of the application using the label tag like this:

<activity android:name=".MainActivity" 
                  android:theme="@style/customTheme"
                  android:screenOrientation="portrait"
                  android:label="@string/app_name">
              <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
              </intent-filter>
 </activity>

And this label is also reported on the titlebar! How to dissociate the two? (Like basically, still be able to give a name to the application without affecting my custom title-bar).

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can change the header of any activity by using setTitle("THE TITLE"); in the java code for the page. If you want to use a string defined in the XML FILES, you can use setTitle(R.string.stringName).

Answer 2

My opinion is to create your own custom title bar in the top of the screen and set the no title bar option in the manifest for the activity.

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"

Answer 3

try changing the label of your mainactivity to something like this android:label="@string/main_header" and define the string header in the strings.xml...

hope this good help you...