New Android apps can't find Theme.AppCompat.Light

Asked Dec 08 '14 at 18:26

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I've made a couple of Android apps that went really well, and no errors came up. But now, in Eclipse, whenever I try to make a new Android Project, errors come up saying

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

Even though the exact same theme/style is in my other, perfectly working Android projects, the projects I try to start have these errors, and don't generate a R.java file. Any ideas why? And yes, I imported AppCompat, v7.

EDIT: It shows up in 'Android' under Properties w/ a red X, when I add it again it has a green check, but if I close and reopen properties it changes to an X again. WHY!?!?!?!? I've tried cleaning, too, but it doesn't change anything. There's no R.java generated, errors in the MainActivity, somer AppCompat problem that doesn't even exists w/ my earlier projects. What's causing this?

edited Dec 08 '14 at 18:48

asked Dec 08 '14 at 18:26

Yaakov Schectman

Have you added the support library to those projects? – Azae B. Garcia Dec 08 '14 at 18:28
@azael sdk/extras/android/support/v7/libs/appcompat or something like that, right? Yeah I added it. – Yaakov Schectman Dec 08 '14 at 18:29
Did you do this http://stackoverflow.com/a/17881186/4324834? – Azae B. Garcia Dec 08 '14 at 18:30
@Azael I'm trying but there's a little red X next to the thing in the Android section. Do you know why? – Yaakov Schectman Dec 08 '14 at 18:36
The means the path to the library is incorrect, choose the right path – Azae B. Garcia Dec 08 '14 at 18:38
@Azael Never mind, I was looking at thre wrong thing. I added AppCompat, green check next to it, but that didn't fix the error. – Yaakov Schectman Dec 08 '14 at 18:39

New Android apps can't find Theme.AppCompat.Light

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