I was trying to roll my project back to a previous version by checking the git out from GitHub, but I think I did it in a wrong way. I just removed the local project and che
That is a problem with themes and styles. Probably one of your libraries is expecting that style to be available and it's not finding it. See here Cant set Android Actionbar Background correctly as a guide on how to fill in that particular attribute that may work for you.
This resource seems to have been introduced in 2013 according to google's diffs here https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/base/+/f5215ae4712f468568b58c20baadd14b769c10c4%5E!/
Changing your themes.xml followed by using it from the manifest, or changing styles.xml can potentially cause those side effects if not done properly.