cannot access DialogStyle

Question

After updating android-support library to 22.2.0 project stopped compiling.

error: cannot access DialogStyle
  class file for android.s         


        

Answer 1

I am using the work around found here https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=175086#c9

I modified my build.gradle file to say the following in the dependencies section:

compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
compile ('com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.2.0') {
    exclude module: 'support-v4'
}
compile ('com.android.support:gridlayout-v7:22.2.0') {
    exclude module: 'support-v4'
}
compile ('com.android.support:cardview-v7:22.2.0') {
    exclude module: 'support-v4'
}
compile ('com.android.support:design:22.2.0') {
    exclude module: 'support-v4'
}

You will also have to exclude it from any other dependencies that use the support library like dagger or facebook.

Then, I added the android-support-v4.jar file found in $ANDROID_HOME/extras/android/support/v4 to my libs directory, as that file does seem to have DialogFragment$DialogStyle.

Now, my build is fully working again, but I still hope this can get fixed soon.