It’s all ironed out now but then when I ported to my phone I noticed the action bar. A quick google search later and I was able to remove the action bar in the AndroidManifest.xml that Android studio creates. Then I relaunched my app and when I try to r

You hide action bar by with different ways. 1.action bar hidden through the manifest xml file (non Java Programming), then the easy way is to add the following attribute in Activity tag:

I can hide the action bar in honeycomb using this code: getActionBar().hide(); But when the keyboard opens, and user copy-pastes anything, the action bar shows again.