Error inflating layout of FloatingActionButton : NoSuchMethodException

Question

So I'm getting an error inflating the layout, something about NoSuchMethodException. I've looked at other solutions to this and I've made sure that I've done the following, which I have, and I'm still getting the exception. Does anyone know what could be causing this??! I am completely lost, everything was working fine and then I updated my android studio and now I'm getting this error.

My activity is an AppCompatActivity

My app layout, using AppCompat:

<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>

My layout code, using app namespace for setting the background tint:

<android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
    android:id="@+id/fab"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="bottom|end"
    android:layout_margin="@dimen/fab_margin"
    android:src="@drawable/ic_add_white_18dp"
    app:backgroundTint="@color/colorPrimary"
    app:layout_behavior="Behaviors.ScrollAwareFABBehavior"/>

<include layout="@layout/content_main" />

This is my gradle build file:

compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.0'
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.4.0'
compile 'com.android.support:design:23.4.0'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.4.0'
compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.4.0'
compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:23.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.4.0'

Here is my stack trace:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatImageHelper.<init>(Landroid/widget/ImageView;Landroid/support/v7/widget/AppCompatDrawableManager;)V
at android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton.<init>(FloatingActionButton.java:133)
at android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton.<init>(FloatingActionButton.java:110)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.jetbrains.android.uipreview.ViewLoader.createNewInstance(ViewLoader.java:465)
at org.jetbrains.android.uipreview.ViewLoader.loadClass(ViewLoader.java:172)
at org.jetbrains.android.uipreview.ViewLoader.loadView(ViewLoader.java:105)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.LayoutlibCallbackImpl.loadView(LayoutlibCallbackImpl.java:186)
at android.view.BridgeInflater.loadCustomView(BridgeInflater.java:334)
at android.view.BridgeInflater.loadCustomView(BridgeInflater.java:345)
at android.view.BridgeInflater.createViewFromTag(BridgeInflater.java:245)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:727)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate_Original(LayoutInflater.java:858)
at android.view.LayoutInflater_Delegate.rInflate(LayoutInflater_Delegate.java:70)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:834)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflateChildren(LayoutInflater.java:821)
at android.view.LayoutInflater_Delegate.parseInclude(LayoutInflater_Delegate.java:197)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.parseInclude(LayoutInflater.java:902)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate_Original(LayoutInflater.java:854)
at android.view.LayoutInflater_Delegate.rInflate(LayoutInflater_Delegate.java:70)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:834)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflateChildren(LayoutInflater.java:821)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:518)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:397)
at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.impl.RenderSessionImpl.inflate(RenderSessionImpl.java:324)
at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.Bridge.createSession(Bridge.java:429)
at com.android.ide.common.rendering.LayoutLibrary.createSession(LayoutLibrary.java:389)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask$2.compute(RenderTask.java:548)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask$2.compute(RenderTask.java:533)
at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runReadAction(ApplicationImpl.java:966)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask.createRenderSession(RenderTask.java:533)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask.lambda$inflate$53(RenderTask.java:659)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Answer 1

I have exactly the some problem, it was random and it was today after mindlesly selecting "ok" on Android studio about something related to downloading stuff. :P

I tried to upgrate SDK build tools (without using them), and rebuilted the project but no luck.

Then, i upgraded to JAVA 1.8, moved to compileSdkVersion 24 and support library 24.2.1 and it worked.

So chances are that Google broke something on last update.

Answer 2

set compileSdkVersion to 24 and then change the

compile 'com.android.support:design:23.4.0'

to

compile 'com.android.support:design:24.2.0'

then sync your project, it will resolve the issue.