Android Studio unable to resolve ?android: resources

Question

Android Studio is complaining about being unable to resolve ?android resources in xml layouts.

It is building and running these projects without complain, but whenever I look at my layout or do a commit it is highlighting them as errors.

Screenshot of Error message

Any suggestions for solving this would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 10 '14 at 12:26

1

Try this attribute

android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"

answered Mar 10 '14 at 12:26

A.S.

Again, this works fine but is highlighted as an error. – Ankhwatcher Mar 10 '14 at 12:28
@android:color/white is highlighted as an error the same way. – Ankhwatcher Mar 10 '14 at 15:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 10 '14 at 15:46

1

Well I found a sort-of solution: If I go into my build.gradle and set my compileSdkVersion to be something other than 19 the error messages go away.

apply plugin: 'android'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 17
    buildToolsVersion '19.0.2'
...

Obviously this isn't a very good solution, I'm going to try removing SDK 19 and re-adding it to see if it will resolve the issue for that SDK.

answered Mar 10 '14 at 15:46

Ankhwatcher

Yep, that did it.I wish I had thought of that a few weeks ago, that was really irritating. (I didn't twig that it was a system-wide thing until I started a new project and had the same problem.) – Ankhwatcher Mar 10 '14 at 15:48

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