I have an application which uses a custom title bar. However, when my application launches, I noticed that the default title bar is shown for a brief period of time. My problem is I don't want to show the default title bar while my application is loading. How do I hide the title bar while my application is loading so that there will be no hint of it and then show it afterwards?

So far, I tried the following solutions but none have worked:

• Hide the title bar in XML and then set the custom title bar in code. (Problem encountered: I received an error message saying: "You cannot combine custom titles with other title features".)

In XML:

<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>

In onCreate method:

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);
//... some code goes here
getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, R.layout.title_header);

• Set the size of the title bar in XML to 0. Then change it's size via code later. (Problem encountered: I don't know how to set the size of title bar in code. Is it possible? I tried getWindow().setAttributes() and getWindow().setLayout() but both of them didn't worked.)"

In XML:

<item name="android:windowTitleSize">30dp</item>

• Modify windowTitleBackgroundStyle and set a transparent drawable as background. (Problem encountered: The content of the title bar became invisible but a line below the title bar is still visible.)

In XML:

<!-- style used by windowTitleBackgroundStyle -->
<item name="android:background">@drawable/transparent</item>