Cannot Resolve The Symbol 'R' - After importing eclipse project to Android Studio

Question

Please be gentle, I am moving my projects from Eclipse to Android Studio. The first issue is that all my activities now have problems resolving 'R'. I have a feeling that this is produced because the support library. Generally I am using only the v.4 library but now in android studio I get the following error:

/Users/vedtam/StudioProjects/foto.studio/fotostudio/build/intermediates/exploded-aar/com.android.support/appcompat-v7/22.0.0/res/values-v11/values.xml Error:(47, 21) No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:actionModeShareDrawable'.

/Users/vedtam/StudioProjects/foto.studio/fotostudio/build/intermediates/exploded-aar/com.android.support/appcompat-v7/22.0.0/res/values-v14/values.xml Error:(17, 21) No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:actionModeShareDrawable'.

/Users/vedtam/StudioProjects/foto.studio/fotostudio/build/intermediates/exploded-aar/com.android.support/appcompat-v7/22.0.0/res/values-v21/values.xml Error:(1) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Inverse'. Error:(1) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Large.Inverse'.

build.gradle

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 17
    buildToolsVersion "22.0.1"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "foto.studio"
        minSdkVersion 14
        targetSdkVersion 18
    }

    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.txt'
        }
    }
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.1.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:+'
    compile files('libs/android-async-http-1.4.6.jar')
    compile files('libs/braintree-api-1.6.1-full.jar')
    compile files('libs/universal-image-loader-1.9.4-SNAPSHOT.jar')
}

Why am I getting these errors if I don't have the v.7 support library between the dependecies?

Thanks

codeFreak codeFreak · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-18T16:44:12

Some resources can't be resolved properly in values.xml for your various api versions from values-v11, values-14 and values-21 in the res directory of your app. That's the reason for the not resolving "R" issue. Open those XML files and fix them then your AS will build fine.

Cannot Resolve The Symbol 'R' - After importing eclipse project to Android Studio

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