Remove title in Toolbar in appcompat-v7

The correct way to hide/change the Toolbar Title is this:

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setTitle(null);

This because when you call setSupportActionBar(toolbar);, then the getSupportActionBar() will be responsible of handling everything to the Action Bar, not the toolbar object.

See here

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);