java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: AppCompat does not support the current theme features

Question

I tried to migrate a project from Eclipse to Android studio. Finally I am able to run it, but at a certain point I got this exception, and I found nothing in google about this:

04-22 00:08:15.484    9891-9891/hu.illion.kwindoo E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{hu.illion.kwindoo/hu.illion.kwindoo.activity.MainActivity}: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: AppCompat does not support the current theme features
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2092)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2117)
    ...    
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: AppCompat does not support the current theme features
    at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.ensureSubDecor(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:360)
    at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:246)
    at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:106)
    at hu.illion.kwindoo.activity.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:73)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5047)
    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1094)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2056)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2117)
    ...

73. line of MainActivity is:

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

Please advice me if you can.

Solution 1

alternative to @sbaar's answer,

keep windowActionBar to false and add windowNoTitleas well and set it to true.

ie

   <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
   <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>

Solution 2

Remove

<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>

from your theme, then make sure you are inheriting from a .NoActionBar Theme, then set your toolbar like normal.

Solution 3

Make sure that your theme is child from Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar, then in styles.xml:

<style name="MyMaterialTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
        <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
        ...
</style>

Btw, it's a new issue for Support Library 22.1.

Solution 4

Check if you call setContentView() after super.onCreate(), and not before. This helped in my case.

Solution 5

Use this parent in Style.xml parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"

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Comments

[Gready]

Never seen this but perhaps you're using a feature in R.layout.activity_main that requires a different version of the Android API? - Though Android Studio likes to tell you about those things... Goodluck

[Charaf Eddine Mechalikh]

post your theme.xml or style.xml and the activity_main.xml

[RaphMclee]

Can you put your .gradle files in here as well? You probably depend on a old appcompat?

[blahdiblah]

Possible duplicate of Upgraded to AppCompat v22.1.0 and now getting IllegalArgumentException: AppCompat does not support the current theme features

[Adam Varhegyi]

And why should i modify a thing ? This project was verry well with eclipse for months.

[SteelBytes]

I had to do this to my app after updating to the latest appcompt (22.1) today. that's all I have changed and my app now works again.

[jmart]

Because some hours ago Google released their version 22.1 of the support library, causing this issue in your project (and in mine as well). It's just a coincidence, not because of the migration to Android Studio.

[Sergey Aldoukhov]

For me, inheriting the theme from .NoActionBar was the key, no element removal was needed.

[wilddev]

I don't use custom scheme (I use Theme.AppCompat) but I have the same exception. How to fix that?

[pawegio]

that's strange, but works after switch ActionBarActivity -> AppCompatActivity

[blueware]

This answer did not work for me. Only @sbaar answer worked. Your theme should inherit from: Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar in addition to those: <item name="windowActionBar">false</item> and <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>

[avb]

Had windowNoTitle and windowActionBar but still didn't work. This fixed it for me. Thanks!

[dobridog]

This works for themes that don't have an alternative in NoActionBar style. In my example it works for Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog

[Anggrayudi H]

@QadirHussain, No, didn't.

[Kaveesh Kanwal]

Thanks For the answer. :)

[Setmax]

dont mention it. happy to see your comment.

[Tariq]

This works when inheriting from Theme.AppComapt.NoActionBar. Perfect!

[b4da]

I want to buy you a beer.

[SteelBytes]

I want to drink that beer :-)

[Vlado Pandžić]

But how set title now?

[Hitesh Sahu]

AppCompat.NoActionBar made all my textView color white use Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar instead

[A Maharaja]

please help me. i have that problem. why this code not work for me stackoverflow.com/questions/44923662/…

[Ruchir Baronia]

Still not working? stackoverflow.com/questions/45643107/…

[Ruchir Baronia]

Doesn't work still stackoverflow.com/questions/45643107/…

[Ruchir Baronia]

stackoverflow.com/questions/45643107/…

[Neph]

I had a similar problem (com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.2.1 & compileSdkVersion 24) when I tried to remove the action bar without setting it to fullscreen: AppCompat does not support the current theme features: { windowActionBar: false, windowActionBarOverlay: false, android:windowIsFloating: false, windowActionModeOverlay: false, windowNoTitle: false } and the apparently faulty line in my MainActivity was setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);. Your suggestion fixed it for me (even with parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar"), thanks!

[Lev Khruschev]

Thank you, it's top 1 answer )