Missing styles. Is the correct theme chosen for this layout?

Question

Missing styles. Is the correct theme chosen for this layout? Use the Theme combo box above the layout to choose a different layout, or fix the theme style ref

Answer 1

I got the same problem with my customized theme that used Holo.Light as its parent. In grayed text Android Studio indicated that some attributes were missing. When I added these missing attributes as follows, the rendering problems went away -

Even though they introduced errors in my style's theme, they caused no problems in rendering the activity designs or building my app.