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    copied!<p>Has anyone successfully set a custom title using MonoDroid?</p> <p>This code fails:</p> <pre><code>base.OnCreate (bundle); SetContentView (Resource.Layout.WordSearchLayout); //Customise the title bar if (this.Window.RequestFeature(WindowFeatures.CustomTitle)) { this.Window.SetFeatureInt (WindowFeatures.CustomTitle, Resource.Layout.custom_title); } </code></pre> <p>Strangely, it fails on the call to <code>RequestFeature</code> with the exception <code>requestFeature() must be called!</code>. </p> <pre><code>I/MonoDroid(26052): UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: Android.Util.AndroidRuntimeException: Exception of type 'Android.Util.AndroidRuntimeException' was thrown. I/MonoDroid(26052): at Android.Runtime.JNIEnv.CallBooleanMethod (intptr,intptr,Android.Runtime.JValue[]) &lt;0x0007c&gt; I/MonoDroid(26052): at Android.Views.Window.RequestFeature (Android.Views.WindowFeatures) &lt;0x00157&gt; I/MonoDroid(26052): at com.xxx.android.WordSearchActivity.OnCreate (Android.OS.Bundle) &lt;0x0013b&gt; I/MonoDroid(26052): at Android.App.Activity.n_OnCreate_Landroid_os_Bundle_ (intptr,intptr,intptr) &lt;0x0005f&gt; I/MonoDroid(26052): at (wrapper dynamic-method) object.1a40b50f-d523-4f52-b291-bcedd3a88965 (intptr,intptr,intptr) &lt;0x00033&gt; I/MonoDroid(26052): I/MonoDroid(26052): --- End of managed exception stack trace --- I/MonoDroid(26052): android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: requestFeature() must be called before adding content I/MonoDroid(26052): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.requestFeature(PhoneWindow.java:181) I/MonoDroid(26052): at com.xxx.android.WordSearchActivity.n_onCreate(Native Method) I/MonoDroid(26052): at com.xxx.android.WordSearchActivity.onCreate(WordSearchActivity.java:30) I/MonoDroid(26052): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1065) I/MonoDroid(26052): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2745) I/MonoDroid(26052): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2797) I/MonoDroid(26052): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2300(ActivityThread.java:135) I/MonoDroid(26052): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2132) I/MonoDroid(26052): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) I/MonoDroid(26052): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:143) I/MonoDroid(26052): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4914) I/MonoDroid(26052): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) I/MonoDroid(26052): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) I/MonoDroid(26052): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868) I/MonoDroid(26052): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626) I/MonoDroid(26052): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) E/mono (26052): E/mono (26052): Unhandled Exception: Android.Util.AndroidRuntimeException: Exception of type 'Android.Util.AndroidRuntimeException' was thrown. E/mono (26052): at Android.Runtime.JNIEnv.CallBooleanMethod (IntPtr jobject, IntPtr jmethod, Android.Runtime.JValue[] parms) [0x00000] in &lt;filename unknown&gt;:0 E/mono (26052): at Android.Views.Window.RequestFeature (WindowFeatures featureId) [0x00000] in &lt;filename unknown&gt;:0 E/mono (26052): at com.xxx.android.WordSearchActivity.OnCreate (Android.OS.Bundle bundle) [0x00000] in &lt;filename unknown&gt;:0 E/mono (26052): at Android.App.Activity.n_OnCreate_Landroid_os_Bundle_ (IntPtr jnienv, IntPtr native__this, IntPtr native_savedInstanceState) [0x00000] in &lt;filename unknown&gt;:0 E/mono (26052): at (wrapper dynamic-method) object:1a40b50f-d523-4f52-b291-bcedd3a88965 (intptr,intptr,intptr) E/mono (26052): --- End of managed exception stack trace --- E/mono (26052): android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: requestFeature() must be called before adding content E/mono (26052): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.requestFeature(PhoneWindow.java:181) E/mono (26052): at com.xxx.andro </code></pre> <p>Changing the ordering of the code to call <code>SetContentView</code> (see below) has some effect:</p> <pre><code> base.OnCreate (bundle); //Customise the title bar if (this.Window.RequestFeature (WindowFeatures.CustomTitle)) { this.Window.SetFeatureInt (WindowFeatures.CustomTitle, Resource.Layout.custom_title); } SetContentView (Resource.Layout.WordSearchLayout); </code></pre> <p>This will result in an empty grey bar in the title, but nothing else. custom_title is defined as:</p> <pre><code>&lt;TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:id="@+id/myTitle" android:text="This is my new title" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="50dp" android:textColor="@android:color/black" android:background="@android:color/white" android:layout_marginLeft="25px" android:paddingTop="3px" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>Same result (grey bar) on emulator and device.</p> <p>Any ideas?</p>
 

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