Android maps:Failed to find style 'mapViewStyle' in current theme

Question

I am trying to use maps in my application and i get this error, Failed to find style \'mapViewStyle\' in current theme

i have generated the key properly, and have tr

Answer 1

My answer may be a late one, but i hope that it'll deals with the actual reason and sure it could be helpful for those who are going to search about the same problem in future.

This type of errors,

1. Android Google Maps Failed to find style 'mapViewStyle' in current theme
2. Failed to find style 'imageButtonStyle' in current theme 
3. Failed to find style 'editTextStyle' in current theme 
4. Failed to find style 'textViewStyle' in current theme 

Anything from the above list it may be,

The ultimate reason is ,

We have selected the unavailable Theme for the layout.

This may occur because of the following reasons,

1. The selected theme is not available in themes.xml file.
2. The selected theme is belongs to higher version sdk, but our current target sdk is lower one.

This problem mostly happens,

1. when you copy the whole layout file and try to implement it in your project. a. Your may forgot to copy themes.xml file b. You may have lower target sdk, the original layout created with higher target sdk.

The Solutions for this problem are,

(Open and View the layout file in the Graphical Layout View, and look at the top Right corner. There your themes for the layout have been selected.)

1. So click the dropdown list for theme selection and choose the available themes according to your project themes and targeted sdk themes. (OR)
2. If the theme is a custom one , if you are required it , then copy the themes.xml file to your project from the source where you copied the layout xml file. (OR)
3. If the theme is sdk avail theme, if you are required it , then change your target according to your selected theme.

Hope - This might be helpful for somebody.

Answer 2

I thought I'd add this little tidbit. I was getting error #4 above. It took me forever to realize that the theme I had made for my Preferences was automatically being applied to every single layout file I had already made. Choosing a different one as described above fixed my problem. I don't know why Android Studio automatically applied it to all my other layouts, but I wish it wouldn't.

I still don't know why the theme I'd made was breaking everything, as it was only applying a backgroundColor to my Preferences page, but hopefully someday I will.