In my current project, when I select the Design tab in Android Studio 2.2.2 for a particular layout I get an error that says
Missing styles. Is the correct theme chosen for this layout?
and it goes on to say
Failed to find style 'textEditSuggestionItemLayout' in current theme
(42 similar errors not shown)
But, the actual layout renders OK in the Designer and at runtime.
There are lots of other S.O. posts on this, such as here and here and most of the answers seem to involve clearing the caches and restarting Android Studio, or selecting a different theme from the dropdown. I I have tried the first one but it didn't help. I haven't tried the second one yet because I don't really understand what a theme is.
Questions:
The error implies that there's an error in the theme itself. What
is that? Is the theme file part of my project, i.e., is it one
that I should be creating, editing, and that gets built and shipped
as part of my APK or is it only used in the developer IDE?
If I select a different theme from the dropdown how do I know what the
"correct" one is?
Since my project builds and runs OK as is, can I just ignore these
errors? In other words are these errors in my code or just a
problem with the development environment?
Edit: Some additional information after responding to comments, below:
The only place the string 'theme' is used in my manifest is
android:theme="#style/Theme.FullScreen"
... and FullScreen is the theme specified in the dropdown.
I did a search in my project for the string "textEditSuggestionItemLayout" and Android Studio found no occurrences of it.
If you've recently updated AS or any of its components, then try to 'Invalidate caches & restart'.
Else, try choosing AppTheme from the Design tab or change it to AppTheme from the default one. Choose the one that conforms to your parent app theme in your styles.xml.
The cause of the error could be anything from malfunctioning IDE to selecting a theme not mentioned in your styles.xml (most likely).
You could do a project-wide search for textEditSuggestionItemlayout, or the other styles that it claims to miss.
These are either in your own res/values/styles.xml and/or res/values/themes.xml files, or they are provided within the SDK, which is why you see some suggestions to uncheck 'Automatically Pick Best' and pick a version you have installed. In some cases, the latest API version's rendering tools don't work.
As an example, if you have your style set at Theme.Holo, but you are using the AppCompatActivity, you'll get a rendering error that you must use a Theme.AppCompat (or descendant). These themes are changeable from the dropdown of the design editor.
You can see what themes/styles are applied to your Activities within the AndroidManifest.xml.
res/values/styles.xml
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/PrimaryColor</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/PrimaryDarkColor</item>
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
</style>
AndroidManifest.xml
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme">
Note: android:theme= and #style/
If you are still missing themes, then you may be missing some dependency, such as
compile 'com.android.support:design:<your_version_here>'
If your code runs fine, then sure, ignore it, but I think getting the layout designer working again shouldn't be ignored.
Missing styles. Is the correct theme chosen for this layout? Use the Theme combo box above the layout to choose a different layout, or fix the theme style references. Failed to find style mapViewStyle in current theme.
I tried every solutions available to solve this problem but nothing seems to work. I have included library in the manifest file. I even created style is styles.xml, I have chosen Google Apis build target as well.
Can somebody please give me a solution?
here is my xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
style="#style/AppTheme"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<com.google.android.maps.MapView
android:id="#+id/themap"
style="#style/mapViewStyle"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:apiKey="here i have my key"
android:clickable="true"
android:enabled="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
Here is my manifest snippet:
<uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps" />
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="#string/title_activity_main" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity android:name=".Second" />
<activity android:name=".Third" android:theme="#android:style/Theme.Black"/>
</application>
here is my style.xml file
<resources>
<style name="mapViewStyle" parent="#android:style/Theme.Black">
</style>
</resources>
For Android Studio (or IntelliJ IDEA),
If everything looks OK in your project and you're still receiving the error in your layouts, try to 'Invalidate caches & restart'.
Enjoy a coffee while Android Studio is recreating caches & indexes.
I had the same problem and found it was the Theme dropdown at the top of the graphical layout editor. I changed from Holo to Theme and the layout displayed and error disappeared.
What I usually do is the following: a Gradle Clean, Rebuild and Sync all my Gradle files. After that I restart Android Studio, and I go to:
Select Theme -> Project Themes -> AppTheme
This is because you select not a theme of your project. Try to do next:
If we are creating too many projects using Android Studio sometime Rendering issue comes. Even creating a blank activity we receive such rendering error.
Please shut down and restart Android studio. In case the issue persists you can
Hope this helps. It works similar fashion as rule of thumb, in case all looks good and still error persists a restart of application usually resolves the issue.
In my case the problem occurred while the default setting for Android Version in the Designer was set to 'Preview N'. Changed Android Version to '23' and the error notification went away.
Edit And don't forget to uncheck 'Automatically Pick Best'.
I had the same problem using Android Studio 1.5.1.
This was solved by using the Android SDK Manager and updating Android Support Library, as well as Local Maven repository for Support Libraries.
After updating the SDK and restarting Android Studio, the problem was rectified.
Hope this helps anyone who has the same problem after trying other suggestions.
I solved it by changing "classpath" in "dependencies" in build.gradles.
Just change:
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.0-alpha2'
or something like that to:
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.3'
I got this error after overriding action bar style like this. Also i lost action bar in preview.
<style name="general_app_theme" parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat">
<!-- for API level 11 -->
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/action_bar_style</item>
<!-- Support library compatibility -->
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/action_bar_style</item>
</style>
<style name="action_bar_style" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<!-- for API level 11 -->
<item name="android:height">#dimen/action_bar_height</item>
<item name="android:background">#color/action_bar_color</item>
<item name="android:displayOptions">showTitle</item>
<!-- Support library compatibility -->
<item name="displayOptions">showTitle</item>
</style>
So, problem is overriding theme by my custom. this is the reason, why I've changed AppCompat (from "Project Themes") to general_app_theme (from "Manifest Themes"). Now I have no this error and action bar in preview come back.
Try switching the theme in the design view to one of the options in "Manifest Themes". I'm guessing this is Because you are inheriting the theme from the manifest to support multiple api levels. It worked for me anyway.
With reference to the answer provided by #Benno:
Instead of changing to a specific theme, you can simply choose 'DeviceDefault' from the theme menu. This should choose the theme most compatible with the emulated device.
If you still have the problem after trying all the solutions aboveļ¼ please try modify the API Level as shown below. Incorrect API Level may also cause the problem.
It can be fixed by changing your theme in styles.xml from
Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar to Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
</style>
to
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
</style>
and clean the project. It will surely help.
Most of the errors in XML happen due to the names you have given to the resources.
Images stored in the drawable folder need to be named in a proper manner.
just check these things:
Are there any duplicate files? if so remove the duplicates. (For example "image.jpg" and "image.png" are not allowed in the same time. It will not show any errors but sometimes it will show that R.java cannot be resolved)
Do the filenames contains any uppercase letters? If so right click on that file->refactor->rename
and rename it with all lowercase, no hyphens, and only a-z and 0-9 are allowed.
Just make sure of the above cases.
I got the same problem with my customized theme that used Holo.Light as its parent. In grayed text Android Studio indicated that some attributes were missing. When I added these missing attributes as follows, the rendering problems went away -
<item name="android:textEditSuggestionItemLayout"></item>
<item name="android:textEditSuggestionContainerLayout"></item>
<item name="android:textEditSuggestionHighlightStyle"></item>
Even though they introduced errors in my style's theme, they caused no problems in rendering the activity designs or building my app.
You can simply remove this error through change "App theme" and select any theme such as light. This error will be removed.
I meet the same problem.Select theme to another one in preview can solve problem temporary.Like the image
Finally,I found out that there are AppTheme and AppBaseTheme in my styles.xml.
And AppTheme has parent AppBaseTheme.
The AppBaseTheme has parent of one system style.
And every layout file use the theme AppTheme.
Just change AppTheme's parent to AppBaseTheme's parent.
It solve the problem permanent.
Just need click button 'AppTheme', and choose 'Manifest Themes'. It works in most cases.
For me, it was occurring on menu.xml file as i was using android:Theme.Light as my theme, So what i did was -
Added new Folder in res directory named values-v21.
Added android:Theme.Material.Light as AppTheme in styles.xml.
This is very late but i like to share my experience this same issue.
i face the same issue in Android studio i tried to some other solution that i found in internet but nothing works for me unless i REBUILD THE PROJECT and it solve my issue.
Hope this will works for you too.
Happy coding.
Change your App theme to AppCombat..
I am getting following error on deploying one of the sample projects given by android: android api demos for api level 8 :
error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:style/Theme.Wallpaper'.
at values/styles.xml line 43
<style name="Theme.Wallpaper" parent="android:style/Theme.Wallpaper">
<item name="android:colorForeground">#fff</item>
</style>
I have been looking for solutions for over a month now. I have tried rebuilding project, dowloading entire source code again and rebuilding and cleaning.
Help
As Very Well Explain by raychenon.
<style name="Theme.Wallpaper" parent="android:style/Theme.Wallpaper" >
<item name="android:colorForeground">#fff</item>
</style>
What is happening is that some styles, like Theme.Wallpaper are not public. You should not extend from them anymore.
Some suggest to revert to platform_tools_r05 HERE
If you want to do the correct way read Xavier July 28 HERE
If you wish to reuse a style that is private, you should copy the
content of that style into your own instead of extending it.
ANSWER
Default theme for windows that want to have the user's selected
wallpaper appear behind them.
<style name="Theme.Wallpaper">
<item name="android:windowBackground">#android:color/transparent</item>
<item name="android:colorBackgroundCacheHint">#null</item>
<item name="android:windowShowWallpaper">true</item>
</style>
Looks like you want to use the above code from the Android source and create your own theme based it.
Hope it Will Helps you.
You can refer to this question posted here and read Xavier's comments on the Google blog..
style reference after SDK and ADT plugin update in mid 2011
Hope it helps..Keep me posted
When you import the Android Samples via "Android projects from existing code", I noticed that the libraries and API number are Android 1.5 and API level 3.
This API Level doesn't support android:style/Theme.Wallpaper.
I fixed it by adjusting the Project Build Target to Android 2.2 (API Level 8) in the Project Properties Menu.
I'm attempting to style the ActionBar, following this blog post:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/04/customizing-action-bar.html
With this source code:
svn checkout http://styled-action-bar.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ styled-action-bar-read-only
However, I'm getting issues in /res/values/styles.xml.
This:
<!-- style for the tabs -->
<style name="MyActionBarTabStyle" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBarView_TabView">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/actionbar_tab_bg</item>
<item name="android:paddingLeft">32dp</item>
<item name="android:paddingRight">32dp</item>
</style>
Is erroring with:
Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBarView_TabView'.
However, using the following answer, and digging through the source for Android, I can see that the theme does indeed exist:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/7149389/420001
The only thing that I changed in the project was moving it from android-11 to android-14, and then running an "Android" > "Fix Project Properties" in Eclipse. I do note that the repo linked to in that answer, that lists the style, is on branch master, so I can't see why the theme would be unfound.
Just for tests, I put that chunk of code in my working android-14 targeting app, minus the background drawable, and it throws the same error.
According to the links in https://stackoverflow.com/a/7837756/1003511 there is a Widget_Holo_Light_ActionBar_TabView but not a Widget_Holo_Light_ActionBarView_TabView. It's possible the resource has been renamed since that tutorial was written. It says the version without the extra "view" has been included since API level 13 - if the tutorial was originally written on 11 it's possible it was renamed in 13, and since you are running 14 you can only see the renamed version. I'd try removing the extraneous "view" and see if the code runs.
You may be missing an '#' character when specifying that you want to look in the android styles:
You can also double check to see if the parent style is listed in the API documentation here:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.style.html
It looks like you may have the name slightly wrong.
I see a lot a similar questions R.java can't compile , No resource found that matches #android:style/ "just after SDK & ADT update" leading to existing projects can't compile
The R.java file cannot be compiled. I find out the errors come from referencing
<style name="Theme.Wallpaper" parent="android:style/Theme.Wallpaper" >
<item name="android:colorForeground">#fff</item>
</style>
What is happening is that some styles, like Theme.Wallpaper are not public. You should not extend from them anymore.
Some suggest to revert to platform_tools_r05
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/550fce9670530d9b/9b2b2aa389dce367?show_docid=9b2b2aa389dce367&pli=1
If you want to do the correct way
read Xavier July 28
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/550fce9670530d9b/9b2b2aa389dce367?show_docid=9b2b2aa389dce367&pli=1
If you wish to reuse a style that is private, you should copy the
content of that style into your own instead of extending it.
Ok so Where do I find the content of the (private) style ?
Seriously, after an update I don't have time to correct platform mistakes when the project code worked right.
<!-- Default theme for windows that want to have the user's selected
wallpaper appear behind them. -->
<style name="Theme.Wallpaper">
<item name="android:windowBackground">#android:color/transparent</item>
<item name="android:colorBackgroundCacheHint">#null</item>
<item name="android:windowShowWallpaper">true</item>
</style>
Looks like you want to use the above code from the Android source and create your own theme based it.