How to use material design in eclipse?

Question

I am developing an android app in eclipse.I need to use material design.I tried by creating folder values-v21 but app will be crash.Can anyone guide me how to use material design in eclipse?.The style i have added is

<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material">

</style>

</resources>

Error is unable to start the activity component info you need to use a Theme.Appcompat theme — ramya br, Nov 19 '15 at 10:10
First of all there are no reasons to use Eclipse any more today. Then you have to use an AppCompat theme not a Material Theme. — Gabriele Mariotti, Nov 19 '15 at 10:27

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 19 '15 at 10:57

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Create a new Android Project with Target SDK version 21
Add Appcompat v7 library to your workspace and add this lib to build path of your project(sdk\extras\android\support\v7)
Then you set Project build target to version 21
There should be only 2 values folder in res folder.
- values/styles.xml should be as below:

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        // Your style here
</style>

values-v21/style.xml should be as below.

<style name="AppBaseTheme"
parent="@android:style/Theme.Material.Light.DarkActionBar">
       ....
      // Your style here
</style>

edited Nov 19 '15 at 10:57

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[different style](https://developer.android.com/training/material/theme.html) – Android Nov 19 '15 at 10:10
when i created the app values-v21 does not appear.I have created it manually.but it does not works for me.target version is 21 only. – ramya br Nov 19 '15 at 10:12
@ramyabr Appcompat v7 lib to add your workspace – Android Nov 19 '15 at 10:17
appcompat_v7 is already there in the work space. – ramya br Nov 19 '15 at 10:19
[check this link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26530415/error-in-styles-base-xml-file-android-app-no-resource-found-that-matches-the/27243716#27243716) – Android Nov 19 '15 at 10:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 19 '15 at 10:14

For you.. This is Perfect Tutorial. Here step by step explained Troubleshooting Eclipse Issues

First, try simply running Project => Clean... from the top-menu on the project and then re-running the app. If it still doesn't work, it might be the issue explained in the next paragraph.

This happens when the Android project was generated with a minimum SDK of 10 or below. One fix is to simply generate new projects with a minimum SDK of 14 instead. However when generating with a lower minSDK, in order to maintain compatibility with older versions, you'll notice that the activity Java class (i.e src/.../MainActivity.java) extends from AppCompatActivity rather than the standard Activity class. When an activity extends from AppCompatActivity, this requires the app to use a "backwards compatible theme".

Easiest fix is to change the theme for the application within the AndroidManifest.xml such that application:theme is set to @style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar as shown below:

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How to use material design in eclipse?

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