IntelliJ ActionBar styling - resource not found

Question

In my app i finally decided to get rid of ActionBarSherlock. In order to do that i had to fix some of my styles. When compiling app with styles like this:

<style name="Theme.MyApp" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo">
   <item name="android:actionDropDownStyle">@style/MyAppDropDownStyle</item>
</style>

<style name="MyAppDropDownStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Spinner.DropDown.ActionBar">
   <item name="android:popupBackground">@color/my_color</item>
</style>

IntelliJ Idea throws error Error:(50, -1) android-apt-compiler: [MyApp] C:\SLI\Repo\Android\MyApp\res\values\themes.xml:50: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name '@android:style/Widget.Holo.Spinner.DropDown.ActionBar'.. IntelliJ can find this resource by "Go to > declaration" option. Any idea how to fix this error? Thanks in advance.

if the solution on this link is your answer, tell me, to put it as answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13726018/adding-holo-theme-to-2-3-6-error-using-holoeverywhere — Dr.jacky, Feb 09 '15 at 12:23
Unfortunately this link doesn't solve my problem. Missing resource isn't related to any third-party library. They are included in a standard android styles.xml file. Moreover other styles from the same file are linked the same way and they don't cause the error. — Seblis, Feb 09 '15 at 12:35
please do it, and tell me: Project(Right Click)--> Android Tools --> Add Support Library / Fix Project Property. — Dr.jacky, Feb 09 '15 at 12:43
I assume this option is available only under Eclipse? I am using IntelliJ Idea. — Seblis, Feb 09 '15 at 12:49
Please set second parent to this: Widget.Sherlock.Spinner.DropDown.ActionBar — Dr.jacky, Feb 09 '15 at 13:07

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 12 '15 at 10:27

It appears @android:style/Widget.Holo.Spinner.DropDown.ActionBar is private and I couldn't use it in inheritance. Displayed error was somewhat misleading - it told that resource wasn't found at all. I found last public ancestor of this style and filled it with required information, so the solution looks like this:

<style name="Theme.MyApp" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo">
   <item name="android:actionDropDownStyle">@style/MyAppDropDownStyle</item>
</style>

<style name="MyAppDropDownStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Spinner">
   <item name="android:popupBackground">@color/my_color</item>
</style>

It's really simple, but relatively hard to find.

IntelliJ ActionBar styling - resource not found

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