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Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name after upgrading to AppCompat v23

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Your compile SDK version must match the support library’s major version. Since you are using version 23 of the support library, you need to compile against version 23 of the Android SDK. Alternatively you can continue compiling against version 22 of the Android SDK by switching to the latest support library v22.

How can I force gradle to redownload dependencies?

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Generally, you can refresh dependencies in your cache with the command line option –refresh-dependencies. You can also delete the cached files under ~/.gradle/caches. With the next build Gradle would attempt to download them again. What is your specific use case? Do you use dynamic dependency versions or SNAPSHOT versions? On Unix systems, you can delete … Read more

Android Studio: Add jar as library?

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I’ve been struggling with the same thing for many hours, trying to get the Gson jar to work no less. I finally cracked it – here are the steps I took: Put the Gson jar (in my case, gson-2.2.4.jar) into the libs folder Right click it and hit ‘Add as library’ Ensure that compile files(‘libs/gson-2.2.4.jar’) … Read more

What’s the difference between implementation, api and compile in Gradle?

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tl;dr Just replace: compile with implementation (if you don’t need transitivity) or api (if you need transitivity) testCompile with testImplementation debugCompile with debugImplementation androidTestCompile with androidTestImplementation compileOnly is still valid. It was added in 3.0 to replace provided and not compile. (provided introduced when Gradle didn’t have a configuration name for that use-case and named … Read more

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