Question

whenever I try to apply a VERY simple style in eclipse I get errors:
the style is as below (filename styles.xml in res/layout)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="commonStyle">
       <item name="android:background">#EEEEEE</item>
     </style>
</resources>

Regardless of whether I try to apply this to a LinearLayout (using style=”@style/commonStyle”) or to an activity in my manifest file (using android:theme=”@style/commonStyle”) I ALWAYS get the error “No resource found that matches the given name…”.
If I try to apply an Android theme to an activity (say Theme.Black) it works just fine.
If I remove any usage of my style, my R.java file is generated as normal with the following contents:

    public static final int styles=0x7f030002; (in the generated layout class)

I have NO idea what is going on. It seems that NOONE is having the same troubles as me (Ive spent about 4 hours searching using google, and came up with not even a remotely close answer).

Ive tried restarting eclipse, clean building etc. etc. and nothing works what so ever…
So what am I missing?

Answer 1

Try moving your styles.xml file to res/values.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/style-resource.html