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Missing Styles rendering problems do you know what these errors mean? How do I fix them

Can you explain how to fix this and what does it mean exactly?

Pablo Rocha
Pablo Rocha
10,142 Points

Sounds like your theme might be incorrect. Can you provide more info such as where you see this error? Also, IDE being using and maybe the code in your manifest and styles XML files.

2 Answers

Hi, what you need to do is select the "Design" tab at the bottom next to the "Text" tab and click the little android icon above the zoom in/out buttons, (the icon with the api level next to it e.g. 21) select a lower API from the drop down menu and allow it to render. VOILA!

Igor Demchenko
Igor Demchenko
1,433 Points

Thanks! What I had is action_bar rendering mistake under API 22. If anyone has same issue - just change to 21, worked for me.

Elle Inad
Elle Inad
568 Points

I was unable to select a lower API level as suggested in the above post. It was set to 22. I then searched for an alternative solution and found that this worked for me https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/missing-styles-rendering-problems-do-you-know-what-these-errors-mean-how-do-i-fix-them