Adding Title Back To Android Window When Using Phonegap

I'm building an app using PhoneGap, which calls getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); in the parent onCreate (DroidGap). But, I want to add the title back on so I

Solution 1:

Phonegap / Cordova version 1.9 added a flag to toggle this feature:

if(!this.getBooleanProperty("showTitle", false))
{
    getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
}

Example onCreate method that enables window title:

@OverridepublicvoidonCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    // enable window title for actionbar supportsuper.setBooleanProperty("showTitle", true);

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);        
}

Solution 2:

Have you tested FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE?

getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);
getWindow().setTitle(getResources().getString(R.string.app_name));

or try loading Theme with title bar:

setTheme(android.R.style.choose some of the themes listed or create your own);

Solution 3:

So, I ended up not being able to solve this without modifying the original code. What I ended up doing was copying the DroidGap class into my own class (source code linked in the post) and commented out the following line:

getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

Then, I extended my normal activity with my modified version of DroidGap, not PhoneGap's version.

Then, in my activity's onCreate, I have something like this:

publicvoidonCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR);

    ActionBarbar= getActionBar();
    bar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
    bar.addTab(bar.newTab().setText("Home").setTabListener(newCustomTabListener()));
    bar.addTab(bar.newTab().setText("Something").setTabListener(newCustomTabListener()));

    loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html");
}

Without the requestFeature, you'll get null from the getActionBar().

Hope it helps someone else!

Solution 4:

Check the Android Manifest. I found that phonegap generates an Android manifest that specifies android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar". Changing this theme allowed me to control the title display from code.