“You need to use a Theme.Appcompat theme…” when testing ActionBarActivity, but I am

Question

I have a problem when testing an app which uses ActionBarActivity from android-support-v7-appcompat via Android JUnit test in Eclipse. When running in an emulator or device ever

Answer 1

add android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat" under application in your manifest.xml

Answer 2

There are 2 things I'd try:

• Remove the setTheme from onCreate, it is redundant with the manifest and may lead to confusion
• Set the theme at Application instead of Activity level in the manifest