[android] No resource found that matches the given name '@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light'

I have been on this problem for a couple hours. After downloading a repository from github, the only error in any .xml file is:

No resource found that matches the given name '@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light'

The code is very straightforward, but there is not one straightforward answer I have found, on how to alleviate the error.

here is the code (in file res/values/styles.xml):

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <!-- API 14 theme customizations can go here. -->
</style>

The project is located at: https://github.com/erikswed/InstaChatX I am on Windows, using Eclipse Kepler

The steps described above do work, however I've encountered this problem on IntelliJ IDEA and have found that I'm having these problems with existing projects and the only solution is to remove the 'appcompat' module (not the library) and re-import it.

Below are the steps you can try it out to resolve the issue: -

1. Provide reference of AppCompat Library into your project.
2. If option 1 doesn't solve the issue then you can try to change the style.xml file to below code.

 parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light"  

instead.

 parent="android:Theme.AppCompat.Light"  

But option 2 will require minimum sdk version 14.

Hope this will help !

Summved

If you are looking for the solution in Android Studio :

1. Right click on your app
2. Open Module Settings
3. Select Dependencies tab
4. Click on green + symbol which is on the right side
5. Select Library Dependency
6. Choose appcompat-v7 from list