If you follow the guide to hide the ActionBar using a custom theme and at the same time also follow the guide to use 9-patch splash screens the application window will be small and sitting in the top left of the screen, uncovering the splash screen under it, as shown in the attached screenshot.
The guides
Just before the 3 steps for custom themes, the introduction of the following splash-guide says you do *not* need a custom theme if you just name your 9-patch splash screen images
background.9.png:
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http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/latest/#!/guide/Icons_and_Splash_Screens-section-29004897_IconsandSplashScreens-Androidsplashscreenconsiderations
The following actionbar-guide shows how to use a
custom_theme.xml together with a small change in
tiapp.xml to hide the action bar on all windows:
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http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/latest/#!/guide/Android_Action_Bar-section-36735509_AndroidActionBar-HidingtheActionBar
The problem
Both of these guides at themselves work just fine. But when you follow both of them you'll get the problem described.
Steps to reproduce
1. Download the attached example project
2. Build to see the expected white application window
3. Rename
platform/android/res/_drawable to
drawable
4. Build to see the white application window in the top left
Explored solutions
I've tried several changes such as using
android:windowActionBar instead of
windowActionBar or setting the splash in a custom theme, but nothing helped. I also compared the builds after step 2 and 4 of the steps laid out to reproduce. All the (non-binary) files were 100% identical, so the error must be in the compiled JAVA and not in the generated XML themes.
Workaround
I can't think of a (satisfying) workaround, so I hope this can be fixed soon.
The app window (white) showing on top left of screen, uncovering the nine-patch splash.
Can I please get some love on this one [~ingo]? Without this resolved I'm stuck at 3.2.3.GA for apps what want no actionbar and use 9-patch slash screens.
Still an issue in 3.4.0.RC
I can't access TIMOB-17563, but am I right that the docs have been updated? The attached test case had other code copied from the docs:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <style name="Theme.NoActionBar" parent="@style/Theme.Titanium"> <!-- Depending on the parent theme, this may be called android:windowActionBar instead of windowActionBar --> <item name="windowActionBar">false</item> </style> </resources>Permission Violation when trying to access TIMOB-17563
Fixed.
Closing ticket as duplicate.