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Android

Posted by Luke Glazebrook
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 Points

Interactive Story app crashing.

Hello everyone!

After realising I did not have the 'values-v21' folder like Ben did I decided I would go ahead and make it myself after reading a suggestion here on the forums. I also created the 'styles.xml' file that it is supposed and contain and gave it the same content as the 'styles.xml' file in the 'layout' directory.

However, this did not work as I expected and, subsequently, my app started to crash on launch. Does anyone know how I can fix this bug?

values-v21/styles.xml

<resources>

    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light.NoActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    </style>

</resources>

Thanks a lot to anyone who helps me out with this.

EDIT: After doing some research online I have found that if I am using an AppCompat theme I do not need to use a 'values-v21' type folder as the theme will take care of this for me. Is this true?