android material design sample code giving missing resources errors

Question

I am trying to run android material design same taken from below https://github.com/material-components/material-components-android

but getting these errors :

failed
:lib:packageDebugResources
tokens.xml
Can't determine type for tag '<macro name="m3_comp_bottom_app_bar_container_color">?attr/colorSurface</macro>'
tokens.xml
Can't determine type for tag '<macro name="m3_sys_color_dark_surface_tint">?attr/colorPrimary</macro>'
fab_tokens.xml
Can't determine type for tag '<macro name="m3_comp_fab_primary_container_color">?attr/colorPrimaryContainer</macro>'
tokens.xml
Can't determine type for tag '<macro name="m3_comp_switch_selected_icon_color">?attr/colorOnPrimaryContainer</macro>'
tokens.xml
Can't determine type for tag '<macro name="m3_sys_motion_path">linear</macro>'
tokens.xml
Can't determine type for tag '<macro name="m3_sys_shape_corner_full_family">rounded</macro>'
tokens.xml
Can't determine type for tag '<macro name="m3_ref_typeface_brand_regular">sans-serif</macro>'
/Users/mac/AndroidStudioProjects/material-components-android/lib/java/com/google/android/material/bottomappbar/res/values/tokens.xml: Error: Can't determine type for tag '<macro name="m3_comp_bottom_app_bar_container_color">?attr/colorSurface</macro>'

Does this answer your question? [Can't determine type for tag '?attr/colorSurface'](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74191324/cant-determine-type-for-tag-macro-name-m3-comp-bottom-app-bar-container-colo) — Edric, Jul 07 '23 at 15:30

score 28 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 26 '22 at 11:47

28

I got the same error when upgrade to this version

implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.5.1'
implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.8.0-alpha01'

But working fine in

implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.4.1'
implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.6.0'

answered Sep 26 '22 at 11:47

Supun Ayeshmantha

499
1
5
9

Strange that this hasn't been fixed yet. This seems to be the only solution – James Wahome Nov 13 '22 at 10:27

neerajt · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-21T05:51:09.943

11

Problem is solve after using current version of android studio ( updated from 4.2 to 2021.2.1 and used recommended gradle plugin )

Got the below reply from github when i open defect for same "The error message you attached says not recognizing resource tag, which requires AGP 7.2. You must use a version later than 1.7.0-alpha02, please make sure your app build with the minimum required plugin versions."

edited Jul 21 '22 at 05:51

answered Jul 21 '22 at 05:07

neerajt

391
1
2
11

1

Yes it got solved after updating to android studio dolphin and AGP to 7.3.1 – Gopal Kohli Oct 16 '22 at 18:38
still it;s not working. after giving distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.4-bin.zip – Priyanka Nov 13 '22 at 14:23

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 15 '22 at 16:20

3

Replace :

implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.5.1'
implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.7.0'

with:

implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.4.1'
implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.6.0'

in build.gradle(:app) file under dependencies { }

edited Nov 15 '22 at 16:20

user3673952

698
10
30

answered Nov 10 '22 at 21:39

Sneha Awate

31
2

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 02 '22 at 03:17

2

updating the Android Gradle plugin to 7.3.3 (gradle-7.3.3-bin.zip)

things will be ok.

answered Nov 02 '22 at 03:17

sodino

261
3
5

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Nov 17 '22 at 11:36

1

Try downgrading material design library in build.gradle(app).

I have changed

implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.7.0'

to

implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.6.0'

And this resolved my issue.

edited Nov 17 '22 at 11:36

Donald Duck

8,409
22
75
99

answered Nov 16 '22 at 15:16

Aishwarya

151
1
5

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 18 '22 at 10:32

This issue should be relevant to people who dig deeper and do not directly work with these dependencies, as it works fine for building and running apps in Android Studio.

It seems that material 1.7.0 is using illegal tag <macro>, you can see it in multiple files when looking through their release changes, specifically the **/tokens.xmlfiles. I could not find any information about this tag in AGP documentation and the only references to it I found from this git repo was this part of the code

private fun parseMacro(
    element: StartElement, eventReader: XMLEventReader, parsedResource: ParsedResource): Boolean {
...
  // Macros can only be defined in the default config
  val defaultConfig = ConfigDescription()
  if (parsedResource.config != defaultConfig) {
    logError(
      blameSource(source, element.location),
      "<macro> tags cannot be declared in configurations other than the default configuration")
      return false
    }

So I'm not really sure how did they work around it. In the future it is possible that AGP will support this tag externally and include it in their documentation, but for now you'll have to use workarounds

android material design sample code giving missing resources errors

6 Answers6

Linked