Android support action bar

Question

I'm trying to add the support action bar to my Android app, but right at the start where I have

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.AppCompat.Light">

I get an error No resource found that matches the given name: android:Theme.AppCompat.Light.

I can import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar and android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity so I think I've added the support libraries correctly. Why do Android dev docs gloss over this? It should be Lesson #1.

Answer 1

It should be:

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">

android:Theme.AppCompat.Light is incorrect. Everything with the namespace 'android' refers to properties from the framework ( but Theme.AppCompat.Light only exists in the support library).