How to remove the default back button from Android activity

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When you add a new activity in Android Studio. It will have a default back button at the upper left corner. How to remove it? I check many things online but they are not working. So, let’s remove it by ourselves!

1. Prerequisite

Appcompat has a version which is v7.

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implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.1.0'

2. Remove it

Add the following line in the onCreate function.

The kotlin version is as the following:

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// kotlin
supportActionBar?.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false)

I assume the Jave version should be using getSupportActionBar() first to get an instance of supportActionBar then trigger that method.

Just this one line, the trick here is when you invoke that setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled, it’s from supportActionBar rather than actionBar.

3. End

Here you go. Hope it helps. :)

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