Error inflating class com.google.android.material.navigation.NavigationView after migration to AndroidX

Question

After I updated my project to AndroidX with targetSdkVersion set to 28, my project crashes on installing it from the store for beta testing.

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Answer 1

For those who the chosen answer didn't help them, I've found that had a problem with NavigationView theme and it should be an appCompat theme (at least for me). after creating a new style like:

and used it with android:theme="@style/NavView" in NavigationView in my mainactivity.xml, the app runs perfectly now.