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Commit 65de0e6a authored by Elliott Hughes's avatar Elliott Hughes
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Encourage the better way of removing an Activity's title bar. 

Books and web pages seem to prefer the requestWindowFeature method
over the android:theme, despite the advantages of the latter. This
may be because we mention requestWindowFeature but not android:theme
in our FAQ.

(Also add missing end tag to fix page rendering with Chrome.)
parent a04aaff2

docs/html/guide/appendix/faq/commontasks.jd

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@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/fundamentals.html">Application Fundamentals</a> 
to understand the basics of how an Android application works.</p> 



<p>You should also take a look at the ApiDemos application and the other sample

applications included in the SDK, in the <code>&lt;sdk&gt;/samples/ 

applications included in the SDK, in the <code>&lt;sdk&gt;/samples/</code>

folder in the SDK.</p>



<p>Finally, a great way to started with Android development in Eclipse is to
@@ -281,6 +281,15 @@ protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data){ 
<pre>//Hide the title bar

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

</pre>

<p>A better way to achieve the same end is to specify a theme in your Android

Manifest file:</p>

<pre>&lt;application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"&gt;

</pre>

<p>This is preferable because it tells the system not to show a title bar while

your application is starting up. With the explicit method call, your application

will have a title bar visible to the user until <code>onCreate</code> runs.</p>

<p>(Note that this can be applied to either the <code>&lt;application&gt;</code>

tag or to individual <code>&lt;activity&gt;</code> tags.)</p>

<a name="localhostalias" id="localhostalias"></a><h2>Referring to localhost from the emulated environment</h2>

<p>

If you need to refer to your host computer's <em>localhost</em>, such as when you