No resource found - Theme AppCompat Light DarkActionBar

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I used ActionBar Style Generator  and now trying to use into my app  but getting        error  Error retrieving parent for item  No resource found that matches the given name   style         Theme AppCompat Light DarkActionBar     i am using android-support-v7-appcompat jar lib inside libs folder  my target is to make my app compatible 2 3 or above

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Using Visual Studio 2015  Windows7    Xamarin had this error and after trying multiple things  installing packages  download android m2repository r10 zip     ended removing the full Xamarin folder inside   C  Users  lt my user gt  AppData Local    After that  Rebuild the application in VS and errors disappeared

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make sure there is a v7 directory in your sdk  I thought having the  Android Support Library   in Extras  was sufficient  Turns out I was missing the  Local Maven repository for Support Libraries  extras android m2repository   Studio found that actually and fixed  the gradle dependencies  using gradle to build then worked    cat app build gradle  apply plugin   com android application   android       compileSdkVersion 23     buildToolsVersion  23 0 2       defaultConfig           applicationId  pat example com gdbdemo          minSdkVersion 15         targetSdkVersion 23         versionCode 1         versionName  1 0            buildTypes           release               minifyEnabled false             proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile  proguard-android txt     proguard-rules pro                     dependencies        compile fileTree dir   libs   include      jar        compile  com android support appcompat-v7 23 2 1

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If you are using Visual Studio for MAC  fix the problem clicking on Project   Restoring Nutget packages

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dependencies        compile  com android support appcompat-v7 23 0 0       This worked for me    in Android Studio

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If you re using Eclipse  then add the reference library into your project as the following steps    Right-click your project in the Project Explorer View  Click Properties  Click Android in the Properties window  In the Library group  click Add      See the image below   Select the library  Click OK  Click the OK button again in the Properties window

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In xamarin if you face this issue when you add any new sdk  The simple solution is Open your styles file and add this line    lt style name  AppTheme  parent  android Theme Holo Light DarkActionBar  gt  lt  style gt   It s better solution rather than adding appcompat

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In Eclipse  When importing a support library as a project library following the instructions at Adding Support Libraries  don t forget to check the option  Copy proyects into workspace

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Update your SDK in the manager and be sure to include Android support library in extra s  Go to SDK in file explorer  Finder on mac  track down the extra s folder     sdk extras android support v7 appcompat res values on Windows   Somewhere in there is a themes xml and themes base xml  Copy both of these files  In your project paste the files into  values  directory

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For anyone out there using VS2015  I was getting this error too  and it turns out I hadn t added the library to the project     Install-Package Xamarin Android Support v7 AppCompat

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dependencies       implementation  com android support appcompat-v7 28 0 0      compile has been replaced by implementation  don t know why

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If you are using Android Studio then just add the dependency   dependencies        implementation  com android support appcompat-v7 25 0 1      to app build gradle  And that will work

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If you are using Eclipse just copying android-support-v7-appcompat jar to libs folder will not work if you are going to use resources   Follow steps from here for  Adding libraries with resources

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A simple solution - replace contents this file   res values styles xml  to this is text    lt resources gt    lt  -- Base application theme  -- gt   lt style name  AppTheme  parent  android Theme Holo Light DarkActionBar  gt       lt  -- Customize your theme here  -- gt   lt  style gt

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If you are using the Android mk to build then use the USE AAPT2  which link in the built resource from the AAR   Add below line in Android mk file   LOCAL USE AAPT2    true

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AppCompat is a library project  You need to reference the library project in your android project  Check the topic Adding libraries with resources  Update Adding material theme should be the way  Check https   material io develop android docs getting-started for more details

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I had this same problem  None of the solutions listed here helped my situation  As it turns out  I was importing the parent folder for a project into Android Studio 1 5  rather than the project folder itself  This threw Gradel into a tizzy  Solution was to import the project folder instead

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In my case  I took an android project from one computer to another and had this problem   What worked for me was a combination of some of the answers I ve seen    Remove the copy of the appcompat library that was in the libs folder of the workspace Install sdk 21 Change the project properties to use that sdk build  Set up and start an emulator compatible with sdks 21 Update the Run Configuration to prompt for device to run on  amp  choose Run   Mine ran fine after these steps

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