How to use ActionBarActivity with Theme.Material

Question

I created a new project targeting the L preview. The starter activity that the sdk generates extends ActionBarActivity, however, when I try to run the bare-bone generated ac

Answer 1

AppCompat v21.+'s Theme.AppCompat extends Theme.Base.AppCompat which extends Theme.Platform.AppCompat which extends android:Theme.Material on 21+ devices (i.e., Android L) devices so you shouldn't have to do anything specific to get the Material theme if you are using AppCompat.

Answer 2

Use the following Theme:

android:theme="@style/Base.V7.Theme.AppCompat" >

Answer 3

You need to change dependency in the build gradle to

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.+'