Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name '@android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title'

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I am implementing ActionBar to set the color for text using this style script in xml but getting error when I run my application time does anybody have idea what I have missing

this is my style.xml file

<!-- Start with the Holographic Light theme -->
<style name="Theme.IOSched" parent="android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/window_background</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBar</item>

    <!-- custom attributes 
    <item name="textHeaderMaxLines">@integer/text_header_max_lines</item>
    <item name="trackAbstractMaxLines">@integer/track_abstract_max_lines</item>-->
</style>

<style name="Theme.IOSched.Home" parent="style/Theme.IOSched">
    <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/window_background_home</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="ActionBar" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">@color/actionbar_background</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/accent_1</item>
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/ActionBarText</item>
</style>

<style name="ActionBarText" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title"> <!-- getting here error-->
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/accent_1</item>
    <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
</style>

error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name '@android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title'.

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CommonsWare · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-15T13:14:45.643

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TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title appears to have been added in API Level 13. Make sure your build target is set to 13, not just 11.

edited Jan 15 '13 at 13:14

answered Dec 21 '11 at 15:00

CommonsWare

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Silly to have to mention this, but I forgot the step so perhaps it will help someone else, too: don't forget to "Clean" the project after changing your project's target version! – Brian Lacy Jan 23 '12 at 19:38

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 27 '12 at 13:15

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AndroidManifest.xml:

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion=...
    android:targetSdkVersion="11" />

and

Project Properties -> Project Build Target = 11 or above

These 2 things fixed the problem for me!

answered Dec 27 '12 at 13:15

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Khaled AbuShqear · Answer 3 · 2017-03-13T22:22:00.690

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I tried to change target sdk to 13 but does not works!! then when I changed compileSdkVersion 13 to compileSdkVersion 14 is compiled successfully :)

NOTE: I Work with Android Studio not Eclipse

edited Mar 13 '17 at 22:22

answered Jan 16 '14 at 15:39

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Thank u. Worked like a charm. – Sush Jun 23 '14 at 05:45

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 30 '13 at 09:45

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Make sure you've set your target API (different from the target SDK) in the Project Properties (not the manifest) to be at least 4.0/API 14.

answered Dec 30 '13 at 09:45

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This one is perfect. Upvoted. It would be great if you explain some more which can help us to understand better. – VVB Oct 17 '15 at 11:09

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 27 '15 at 19:06

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This happens because in r6 it shows an error when you try to extend private styles.

Refer to this link

edited Jan 27 '15 at 19:06

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answered Feb 28 '12 at 20:47

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 20 '12 at 08:39

<style name="Theme.IOSched" parent="android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/window_background</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBar</item>
</style>

you can not give your own color and backgroud in item windowBackground. give your color in your /color.xml file.

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 29 '14 at 10:12

This is an old post, but if anyone comes up with this problem, i post what solved my problem:

I was trying to add the Action Bar Sherlock to my proyect when i get the error:

Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:Widget.Holo.ActionBar'.

I turns out that the action bar sherlock proyect and my proyect had differents minSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion. Changing that parameters to match in both proyect solved my problem.

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" android:targetSdkVersion="17"/>

Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name '@android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title'

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