AppcompatActivity Error with Android studio

Question

I'm getting this error when building android application with Android studio :

24192-24192/com.mkapp.apps.demo1 W/dalvikvm﹕ VFY: unable to find class referenced in signature (Landroid/os/PersistableBundle;)
08-20 10:53:23.605  24192-24192/com.mkapp.apps.demo1 I/dalvikvm﹕ Could not find method android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.onCreate, referenced from method com.mkapp.apps.demo1.TourActivity.onCreate
08-20 10:53:23.605  24192-24192/com.mkapp.apps.demo1 W/dalvikvm﹕ VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 8393: Landroid/support/v7/app/AppCompatActivity;.onCreate (Landroid/os/Bundle;Landroid/os/PersistableBundle;)V
08-20 10:53:23.605  24192-24192/com.mkapp.apps.demo1 D/dalvikvm﹕ VFY: replacing opcode 0x6f at 0x0000

my dependencies :

    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:22.2.1'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:7.3.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.1.0+'
    compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.1'

many thanks for your help

old activities which inherit from AppcompatActivity work fine. but if I create new one ,it get the error . here is my gradle.build :

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 23
    buildToolsVersion "23.0.0"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.mkapp.apps.demo1"
        minSdkVersion 10
        targetSdkVersion 22
        compileOptions {
            sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7
            targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7
        }
        multiDexEnabled true
    }
    dexOptions {
        incremental true
        javaMaxHeapSize "4g"
    }
    packagingOptions {
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE.txt'
    }
    lintOptions {
        checkReleaseBuilds false
        // Or, if you prefer, you can continue to check for errors in release builds,
        // but continue the build even when errors are found:
        abortOnError false
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.txt'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile project(':photocollage')
    compile project(':gWFacebookSDK')
//    compile project(':listViewAnimation')
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:7.3.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.1.0'

    compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.1'
    compile files('libs/aws-android-sdk-2.1.0-core.jar')
    compile files('libs/aws-android-sdk-2.1.0-sns.jar')
    compile files('libs/dexmaker-1.1.jar')
    compile files('libs/dexmaker-mockito-1.1-custom.jar')
//    compile files('libs/listviewanimations_lib-core_3.1.0.jar')
    compile files('libs/signpost-commonshttp4-1.2.1.1.jar')
    compile files('libs/signpost-core-1.2.1.1.jar')
    compile files('libs/signpost-jetty6-1.2.1.1.jar')
    compile files('libs/twitter4j-core-4.0.1.jar')
    compile files('libs/universal-image-loader-1.9.3.jar')
}

Answer 1

You have this issue because you are trying to use onCreate (Bundle savedInstanceState, PersistableBundle persistentState), but this method is available only from API level 21.

I am able to reproduce the issue with this sample code on Android 4.4:

public class TourActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState, new PersistableBundle());
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState, PersistableBundle persistentState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState, persistentState);
    }
}

And the issue is resolved removing every occurrence of PersistableBundle:

public class TourActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    }
}

Check where you use PersistableBundle in your TourActivity and remove it or update your answer with the code of your activity.

Answer 2

Update your support library to 23 and your compileSdkVersion to 23 in build.gradle.

compileSdkVersion 23

...

compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.0.0'
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.0.0'

Then sync your project with gradle files.

Also, Google Play Services is now 7.8.0