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

AppCompatActivity was only added in version 22.1.0 of the support library. Before that it was called ActionBarActivity.

You should use the same version for all of your support libraries. At the time of writing the latest version is 23.1.1 (you can find out the latest here https://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/index.html#revisions) so the dependencies section of your gradle file should look like this.

implementation "com.android.support:support-v4:23.1.1"
implementation "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.1"
implementation "com.android.support:support-annotations:23.1.1"