Can't convert to color: type=0x2 error when inflating layout in fragment but only on Samsung Galaxy and Note 4

Question

I am working on a simple app with an activity and i use fragments.One screen with some elements. When i compile and run the app it works fine, except on Samsung Galaxy s3 an

Answer 1

I ran into this when using 3rd party lib https://github.com/hoang8f/android-flat-button after I upgraded gradle to 3.0.1.

Not ideal, but downgrading gradle seemed to resolve the error

This change requires updating 2 files:

1. Project build.gradle with

   com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.3

2. gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties with

   distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.3-all.zip