Adding title back to Android window when using PhoneGap

I'm building an app using PhoneGap, which calls

getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

in the parent onCreate (DroidGap). But, I want to add the title back on so I can use an ActionBar. Is there any flag/way to reset this feature back? If worst comes to worst, I can modify the entire DroidGap cl开发者_开发技巧ass, but would like to still use their version.

And in case it helps anyone to see what DroidGap does in its onCreate, here's the link: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-android/blob/master/framework/src/com/phonegap/DroidGap.java

ActionBar code:

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); 
getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, R.layout.main);
getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR); super.init();
ActionBar bar = getActionBar(); 
bar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS); // here NPE is thrown
bar.addTab(bar.newTab().setText("Some Text").setTabListener(new CustomTabListener()));

Phonegap / Cordova version 1.9 added a flag to toggle this feature:

if(!this.getBooleanProperty("showTitle", false))
{
    getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
}

Example onCreate method that enables window title:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    // enable window title for actionbar support
    super.setBooleanProperty("showTitle", true);

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);        
}

Have you tested FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE?

getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);
getWindow().setTitle(getResources().getString(R.string.app_name));

or try loading Theme with title bar:

setTheme(android.R.style.choose some of the themes listed or create your own);

So, I ended up not being able to solve this without modifying the original code. What I ended up doing was copying the DroidGap class into my own class (source code linked in the post) and commented out the following line:

getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

Then, I extended my normal activity with my modified version of DroidGap, not PhoneGap's version.

Then, in my activity's onCreate, I have something like this:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR);

    ActionBar bar = getActionBar();
    bar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
    bar.addTab(bar.newTab().setText("Home").setTabListener(new CustomTabListener()));
    bar.addTab(bar.newTab().setText("Something").setTabListener(new CustomTabListener()));

    loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html");
}

Without the requestFeature, you'll get null from the getActionBar().

Hope it helps someone else!

Check the Android Manifest. I found that phonegap generates an Android manifest that specifies android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar". Changing this theme allowed me to control the title display from code.