Cannot resolve symbol AppCompatActivity - Support v7 libraries aren't recognized?

Question

I\'m trying to figure out why the heck my Android studio isn\'t recognizing the AppCompat v7 library correctly. The import statement below shows up as gray and says there\'s

Answer 1

For me, Even after upgrading to appcompat-v7:22.1.0, in which AppCompatActivty is added, the problem was not resolved for me, Android Studio was giving same problem

Cannot resolve symbol 'AppCompatActivity'

Sometimes clearing the android studio caches help.

In android studio I just cleared the caches and restarted with the following option--

File->Invalidate Caches/Restart