Theme preview fails in Eclipse

Question

I have made a simple username/password dialog to which I want to apply a theme (it basically defines windowBackground) and would also like to preview in Eclip

Answer 1

Make sure your all other styles.xml present under different values contains your custom theme part.

I had similar problem. In my case I had added a custom theme in values-large folder under res. And it was working at runtime but giving error as yours in eclipse. So i tried adding the custom part(in my case totally there was 3 tags added to styles.xml file) in all other styles.xml file. i.e. styles.xml files under values-normal-hdpi, values-normal-mdpi, valuse-v11 and values-v14...

And BOOM!!! It solved my problem which wasted my whole day.