android - How to create a DialogFragment without title?

Question

I'm creating a DialogFragment to show some help messages regarding my app. Everything works fine besides one thing: There is a black stripe at the top of the window that shows the DialogFragment, that I presume is reserved for the title, something I don't want to use.

This is specially painful since my custom DialogFragment uses a white background, so the change is way too notorious to be left aside.

Let me show you this in a more graphical manner:

Now the XML code for my DialogFragment is as follows:

<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/holding" 
        android:orientation="vertical" 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:background="@drawable/dialog_fragment_bg"
        >
        <!-- Usamos un LinearLayout para que la imagen y el texto esten bien alineados -->
        <LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/confirmationToast" 
            android:orientation="horizontal" 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            >

            <TextView android:id="@+id/confirmationToastText" 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
            android:text="@string/help_dialog_fragment"
            android:textColor="#AE0000"
            android:gravity="center_vertical"
            />

        </LinearLayout>
        <LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/confirmationButtonLL" 
            android:orientation="horizontal" 
            android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:gravity="center_horizontal"
            >    
            <Button android:id="@+id/confirmationDialogButton"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:gravity="center"
                android:layout_marginBottom="60dp"
                android:background="@drawable/ok_button">
            </Button>
        </LinearLayout>
    </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

And the code of the class that implements the DialogFragment:

public class HelpDialog extends DialogFragment {

    public HelpDialog() {
        // Empty constructor required for DialogFragment
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        //Inflate the XML view for the help dialog fragment
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.help_dialog_fragment, container);
        TextView text = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.confirmationToastText);
        text.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.help_dialog_fragment)));
        //get the OK button and add a Listener
        ((Button) view.findViewById(R.id.confirmationDialogButton)).setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {
                 // When button is clicked, call up to owning activity.
                HelpDialog.this.dismiss();
             }
         });
        return view;
    }

}

And the creation process in the main Activity:

/**
 * Shows the HelpDialog Fragment
 */
private void showHelpDialog() {
    android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
    HelpDialog helpDialog = new HelpDialog();
    helpDialog.show(fm, "fragment_help");
}

I really don't know if this answer, related with a Dialog, fits here also Android: How to create a Dialog without a title?

How can I get rid of this title area?

Answer 1

Just add this line of code in your HelpDialog.onCreateView(...)

getDialog().getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

This way you're explicitly asking to get a window without title :)

EDIT

As @DataGraham and @Blundell pointed out on the comments below, it's safer to add the request for a title-less window in the onCreateDialog() method instead of onCreateView(). This way you can prevent ennoying NPE when you're not using your fragment as a Dialog:

@Override
public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  Dialog dialog = super.onCreateDialog(savedInstanceState);

  // request a window without the title
  dialog.getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
  return dialog;
}