App crashing when trying to hide the title bar

Just do below way:

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;

extend:

    public class SplashScreen extends ActionBarActivity {

    @Override
        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            getSupportActionBar().hide();
            setContentView(R.layout.splash_screen);
    }
}

Its working fine with API level 7 or higher.

EDIT:

Use AppCompatActivity because ActionBarActivity @deprecated in API 23.