android: how to remove the back/home button in the action bar

Question

I am having difficulties trying to remove the back/home button from the action bar.

 getActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);   //disable back button
 getActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(false);

In a older android phone, the back button is removed with these two code lines. However with the nexus 4, the back button still appears but is just disabled. Also I am just adding a menu item on the right that behaves like the back/home button replacing the back/home button. What am I missing?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22313830/android-how-to-remove-the-back-home-button-in-the-action-bar

Answer 1

Use getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false) to remove the home button from the action bar.