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

Question

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

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Answer 1

What are the steps for that? where is AppCompat located?

Download the support library here:

http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/setup.html

If you are using Eclipse:

Go to the tabs at the top and select ( Windows -> Android SDK Manager ). Under the 'extras' section, check 'Android Support Library' and check it for installation.

After that, the AppCompat library can be found at:

android-sdk/extras/android/support/v7/appcompat

You need to reference this AppCompat library in your Android project.

Import the library into Eclipse.

1. Right click on your Android project.
2. Select properties.
3. Click 'add...' at the bottom to add a library.
4. Select the support library
5. Clean and rebuild your project.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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.