IDE “Cannot Resolve @style/Theme.Appcompat” when using v7 compatibility support theme

Question

This is not really a huge issue, as my project still builds and runs correctly (using gradle), but I\'m having trouble getting Android Studio to recognize the application co

Answer 1

My fix/problem was much simpler and different than most people here.

My problem was similar in that I had an error like this:

resource style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark (...) not found

The strange part was that I could build in debug mode, but not in release mode.

My Android Manifest contained no errors. My issue was that I had two style.xml files in my resources folder.

Simple Solution: Delete one of the style.xml files or merge them and you should be good. I had two styles that were almost exactly the same in my two .xml files. I could immediately build in release mode following the deletion of one of these files.

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