Error with appcompat module

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My problem was Ide didnt detect Theme.AppCompat.Light

<style name="mytheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">

Then i decide to add appcompat module to my project!

When i add appcompat module to my project its return this error when compile it :

Error:android-apt-compiler: [android-support-v7-appcompat] ERROR: Unknown option '--output-text-symbols'
Error:android-apt-compiler: [android-support-v7-appcompat] Android Asset Packaging Tool

Im using Intelij Idea ide and android api 17 and also :

<uses-sdk
            android:minSdkVersion="9"
            android:targetSdkVersion="19"/>

[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17870881/cant-find-theme-appcompat-light-for-new-android-actionbar-support](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17870881/cant-find-theme-appcompat-light-for-new-android-actionbar-support) — M D, Jan 30 '15 at 10:20
Did you add the dependency to `{project}/build.gradle` compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:19.1.+'? And added the `Android Support Library` on SDK Manager? — Skizo-ozᴉʞS ツ, Jan 30 '15 at 10:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 23 '15 at 06:43

The minsdkVersion should be set as high as your targetsdkVersion(or atleast >= api version 11) to use the appcompat library.

If you're using intelliJ you'd want to go to project structure-->module-->Android-Gradle and put all sdkversions under properties and flavors to the most recent.

And if you'd set the dependency in build.gradle to the following:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:+'
}

Or at least that solved the problem for me.

Error with appcompat module

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