[android] ActionBarActivity cannot resolve a symbol

In my android Studio, Compiler is not able to locate ActionBarActivity. Because of it, I am getting many errors. The compiler is not able to import the ActionBarActivity and ActionBar class. These are the lines where compiler is throwing error:

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar;

I tried to search on stackoverflow before asking a question. The answer i got is for the eclipse which is to add the library. I tried doing it in Android Studio, but didn't get anything.

This question is related to android android-studio

The answer is


Make sure that in the path to the project there is no foldername having whitespace. While creating a project the specified path folders must not contain any space in their naming.


If the same error occurs in ADT/Eclipse

Add Action Bar Sherlock library in your project.

Now, to remove the "import The import android.support.v7 cannot be resolved" error download a jar file named as android-support-v7-appcompat.jar and add it in your project lib folder.

This will surely removes your both errors.