Error inflating class RecyclerView

Question

So my code simply makes a list of CardViews using RecyclerView. Upon running my code i kept getting a weird error claiming there was an error in my xml. After tinkering for

Answer 1

RecyclerView is not included in base Android framework, only widgets in base Android framework (like ListView, GridView etc) can be specified in layout without full namespace. RecyclerView is part of recyclerview-v7 support library.