Android_style:error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'Widget'

Question

Sorry i have seen lots of this topic questions like this in Stackoverflow, but none of them has helped me yet.

Here is my manifest.xml

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="14"
    android:targetSdkVersion="18" />

and here is the style xml code

<style name="Widget.PreferenceFrameLayout">
        <item name="android:borderTop">0dip</item>
        <item name="android:borderBottom">0dip</item>
        <item name="android:borderLeft">0dip</item>
        <item name="android:borderRight">0dip</item>
    </style>

The errors are:

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

Thanks in advance.

Raghunandan · Answer 1 · 2014-04-25T17:50:11.017

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I don't think the style is public. So its not possible to customize

Try

<style name="@android:style/Widget.PreferenceFrameLayout">
    <item name="android:borderTop">0dip</item>
    <item name="android:borderBottom">0dip</item>
    <item name="android:borderLeft">0dip</item>
    <item name="android:borderRight">0dip</item>
</style>

You need to reference the styles in the android framework

And do check this

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/refs/heads/master/core/res/res/values/styles.xml

edited Apr 25 '14 at 17:50

answered Apr 25 '14 at 16:50

Raghunandan

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Thanks man, now the problem is in the manifest. The error is * error: Error: Resource is not public. (at 'theme' with value '@style/@android:Widget.PreferenceFrameLayout').* – Sal-laS Apr 25 '14 at 16:59
@Salman its global theme i guess. so its not public i guess. Also you have `@style/@android:Widget.PreferenceFrameLayout'` – Raghunandan Apr 25 '14 at 17:01
@Salman look at https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/refs/heads/master/core/res/res/values/styles.xml. – Raghunandan Apr 25 '14 at 17:03
let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/51452/discussion-between-raghunandan-and-salman) – Raghunandan Apr 25 '14 at 17:10

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 25 '14 at 16:53

May be you don't have parent style name Widget. If you don't have then add a simple style named Widget as in the style resource

<style name="Widget"></style>

then your styles.xml would be look like as

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>

    <style name="Widget"></style>

    <style name="Widget.PreferenceFrameLayout">
        <item name="android:borderTop">0dip</item>
        <item name="android:borderBottom">0dip</item>
        <item name="android:borderLeft">0dip</item>
        <item name="android:borderRight">0dip</item>
    </style>

</resources>

Android_style:error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'Widget'

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