I may have the names wrong, now that we're into Android v3+ I'm talking about the grey menu/tool bar located at the bottom of these screens: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/115208762/dev1.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/115208762/dev2.png I want to 'hide' it when I go to a content screen. I want to 'show' it when I go to a menu screen. No problem messing with the code, if I knew 'what' code I needed. Any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers! -- Smug

Hey Smug, I think the bottom bar is pretty outdated, so I always put it in the top bar, so that the bottom bar never appears. Controls like the options menu in your images appear perfectly in the top bar then. Code for this: change in your manifest file: from: <!-- BT_activity_host runs after startup and after splash screen (splash screens are not required --> <activity android:name=".BT_activity_host" android:label="@string/app_name" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize" android:theme="@style/hostThemeWithTitle" android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow"></activity> to: <!-- BT_activity_host runs after startup and after splash screen (splash screens are not required --> <activity android:name=".BT_activity_host" android:label="@string/app_name" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize" android:theme="@style/hostThemeWithTitle" ></activity> Hope this helps.

and it is called "actionbar" :-)

And speaking of actionbars... here is a life saving link: http://jgilfelt.github.io/android-actionbarstylegenerator/ The only way to get to grips with the action bar!

Leon, that is *perfect*, thank you! Dusko: I'm not sure if I know how to use it, but I'll certainly give it a shot! Cheers! -- Smug

glad I could help you, normally other way around ;-)

Great tip Leon - thanks. It gives an extra 10% (approx) of screen real estate to use.