title: How to remove the Activity title from Action Bar Sherlock without losing it from the 'RecentApps' chooser?
body: <p>I am having problems trying to remove the Activity title text from my <code>Action Bar Sherlock</code>.
  I have spent(wasted) a lot of time trying to find a solution and just cannot make this work.</p>
  
  <p>I have a <code>Splash Activity</code> on which I go full screen. But just before the <code>Splash Activity</code> appears, a screen appears (for a very short period of time) that has nothing but an Action Bar with the <code>App Icon</code> and <code>Activity Title</code> Text. I do not understand why it appears. Is this default Android behavior? I want to avoid this screen, or at least remove the Activity Title from the Action Bar on this screen. If I set it to "", I lose the app from the Recent Apps chooser.</p>
  
  <p>Please refer to these images:</p>
  
  <p>Pre Splash : </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/oINou.png" width="200" height="355"/></p>
  
  <p>Splash Screen :</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sm7Nl.png" width="200" height="355"/></p>
  
  <p>I have referred to the following examples on SO and also searched elsewhere. But nothing seems to work.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11983120/remove-the-title-text-from-the-action-bar-in-one-single-activity">Remove the title text from the action bar in one single activity</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12327395/action-bar-remove-title-and-reclaim-space">Action Bar remove title and reclaim space</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7655874/how-do-you-remove-the-title-text-from-the-android-actionbar/7656019#7656019">How do you remove the title text from the Android ActionBar?</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10417631/how-can-i-remove-title-and-icon-completetly-in-actionbar-sherlock">How can I remove title and icon completetly in Actionbar sherlock?</a></p>
  
  <p>Please check my Android Manifest and the theme file...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;application
      android:name="com.zipcash.zipcashbetaversion.MyApplication"
      android:allowBackup="true"
      android:icon="@drawable/zipcash_icon"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:logo="@drawable/zipcash_logo_small"
      android:theme="@style/Theme.MyTheme" &gt;
      &lt;activity
          android:name="com.zipcash.zipcashbetaversion.SplashActivity"
          android:label="@string/app_name" 
          android:screenOrientation="portrait" &gt;
          &lt;intent-filter &gt;
              &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;
              &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;
          &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
      &lt;/activity&gt;
      &lt;activity
          android:name="com.zipcash.zipcashbetaversion.SignUpActivity"
          android:label="@string/title_activity_sign_up"  
          android:screenOrientation="portrait" &gt;
      &lt;/activity&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And so on...
  The following is my theme file:</p>
  
  <p>
  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;style name="Theme.MyTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light"&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- Set style for Action Bar (affects tab bar too) --&gt;
      &lt;item name="actionBarStyle"&gt;@style/Widget.MyTheme.ActionBar&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="Widget.MyTheme.ActionBar" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar"&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- define background for action bar (sets default for all parts of action bar - main, stacked, split) --&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;@drawable/background&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="background"&gt;@drawable/background&lt;/item&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- set background for the tab bar (stacked action bar) - it overrides the background property --&gt;
      &lt;item name="backgroundStacked"&gt;@color/action_bar_tab_background&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="titleTextStyle"&gt;@style/NoTitleText&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="subtitleTextStyle"&gt;@style/NoTitleText&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="displayOptions"&gt;showHome|useLogo&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="NoTitleText"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textSize"&gt;0sp&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;#00000000&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:visibility"&gt;invisible&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>I have also written this code in my Splash Activity:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
      actionBar.setDisplayOptions(actionBar.getDisplayOptions() ^ ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE);
      actionBar.hide();
  
      ActivityHelper.initialize(this);
  
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_splash);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Have I made a mistake that I am overlooking. Is there something else I should do. My minimum API level is 8.</p>
  
  <p>Any help will be appreciated.</p>