Android exception: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme with this activity

Question

In order to use the support action bar, my activity has to extend ActionBarActivity, and when I do that and start the activity, the application crashes with:

Exception: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity.

In my styles.xml I have

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light"></style>

And in my AndroidManifest.xml for the offending activity I have

<activity android:name="com.example.test3.SettingsActivity"
          android:theme="@style/AppBaseTheme" />

Answer 1

You have to check for other folders, that contain styles files as well, that could possibly override your styles.