Android TextInputField Inflator Error

Question

Had a crash while trying to use the new TextInputField for Android and wanted to share my solution.

Trying the new TextInputField in the android appcomp

Answer 1

just to be clear as of Android Studio 3.* this is now changed to

implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.1.1'
implementation 'com.android.support:design:27.1.1'

(if this goes red a squiggly when you add it accept the version Android Studio wants to suggest)

this needs to be inside the

 dependencies {}

section of build.gradle (Module:app) so it looks like this

dependencies {
    ...
    implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.1.1'
    implementation 'com.android.support:design:27.1.1'
}

then hit sync now