Material chip crashing app. Cannot inflate xml

Question

My app crashes when trying to inflate the com.google.android.material.chip.Chipclass.

The dependency i am using is implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0'

Here is my XML code

 <com.google.android.material.chip.Chip
        android:id="@+id/chipActive"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:chipCornerRadius="5dp"
        android:backgroundTint="@color/primaryColor"
        android:textColor="@color/primaryTextColor"
        android:textAlignment="center"
        android:fontFamily="@font/roboto_regular"
        android:layout_marginStart="10dp"
        android:text="Active"/>

The error I get is

 android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #18: Binary XML file line #18: Error inflating class com.google.android.material.chip.Chip
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:551)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:429)

I found a question similar to mine on another thread but there was no solution there that was helpful to me. If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this issue please help me :D

Update your app theme to inherit from one of these themes as shown here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51877777/android-material-chip-component-crashing-app-unable-to-inflate-xml — Volodymyr, Jan 09 '19 at 08:57
You'll need to change your main **app theme to Material bridge themes**. — Jeel Vankhede, Jan 09 '19 at 09:02

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 09 '19 at 08:59

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I found the solution just after posting this question. I updated the dependency to implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.1.0-alpha02' and now it works fine.

answered Jan 09 '19 at 08:59

pavlos

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 02 '19 at 10:07

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Use Theme <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.NoActionBar">

answered Mar 02 '19 at 10:07

Arul Pandian

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 26 '21 at 11:59

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Put this code in the chip

android:theme="@style/Theme.MaterialComponents.Light"

answered Aug 26 '21 at 11:59

M.Chithirai Perumal

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Material chip crashing app. Cannot inflate xml

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