Unresolved reference. None of the following candidates is applicable because of receiver type mismatch

Question

I'm using androidx navigation architecture along with Kotlin 1.2.71 in Android studio 3.2.1. My fragment code is:

package com.dell.andnav.fragments

import android.os.Bundle
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment
import android.view.LayoutInflater
import android.view.View
import android.view.ViewGroup
import android.widget.Button
import androidx.navigation.fragment.findNavController
import com.dell.andnav.R
import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.fragment_welcome.*


/**
 * A simple [Fragment] subclass.
 * Use the [WelcomeFragment.newInstance] factory method to
 * create an instance of this fragment.
 *
 */
class WelcomeFragment : Fragment() {

    override fun onCreateView(inflater: LayoutInflater, container: ViewGroup?,
                              savedInstanceState: Bundle?): View? {
        // Inflate the layout for this fragment
        return inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_welcome, container, false)
    }

    override fun onViewCreated(view: View, savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState)
        detailButton.setOnClickListener {
            findNavController().navigate(R.id.action_welcomeFragment_to_detailsFragment)
        }
    }

    companion object {
        @JvmStatic
        fun newInstance() = WelcomeFragment()
    }
}  

And layout code is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/frameLayout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".fragments.WelcomeFragment">


    <Button
        android:id="@+id/detailButton"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/to_detail_fragment"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>  

My build.gradle is:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
apply plugin: 'androidx.navigation.safeargs'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 28
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.dell.andnav"
        minSdkVersion 21
        targetSdkVersion 28
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
        androidExtensions {
            experimental = true
        }
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    def nav_version = "1.0.0-alpha07"
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
//    implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0'
    implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.1.3'
//    implementation 'com.android.support:support-v4:28.0.0'
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
    androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test:runner:1.0.2'
    androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.0.2'

    implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-extensions:2.0.0'
    implementation 'androidx.legacy:legacy-support-v4:1.0.0'
    implementation 'androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.0'
    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.0.2'

    implementation "android.arch.navigation:navigation-fragment-ktx:$nav_version"
    implementation "android.arch.navigation:navigation-ui-ktx:$nav_version"

    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"
}
repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

When I try to run my code, I get below error:

Unresolved reference. None of the following candidates is applicable because of receiver type mismatch: public val Activity.detailButton: Button! defined in kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.fragment_welcome public val Dialog.detailButton: Button! defined in kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.fragment_welcome public val android.app.Fragment.detailButton: Button! defined in kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.fragment_welcome public val androidx.fragment.app.Fragment.detailButton: Button! defined in kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.fragment_welcome public val LayoutContainer.detailButton: Button! defined in kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.fragment_welcome

How can I resolve that error?

Answer 1

Button you are accessing is inside your fragement but your are accessing it directly. You should access it via parent view like we do with java rootview.findViewById() so use

view.detailButton.setOnClickListener {
    findNavController().navigate(R.id.action_welcomeFragment_to_detailsFragment)
}

Answer 2

I have faced the same problem with my adapter class and finally problem solved by adding the following code to build.gradle(Module: app) file of the project.

apply plugin: 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.android.extensions'
androidExtensions {
    experimental = true
}

Since this new version of Kotlin, the Android Extensions have incorporated some new interesting features like caches in any class

Answer 3

I had this issue and figured out that the root cause was play-services with versions 17.x.x

My fix

Change

google_android_gms_version

in

implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:$google_android_gms_version"
    implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:$google_android_gms_version"

from 17.x.x to 15.0.1 The reason is that play services 17.x.x has dependencies on Androidx

General way Click the Gradle option in the extreme right panel, Go to app -> help ->dependencies Search androidx in the chart. Find out which library has it. Change or modify your gradle accordingly.

Those who can migrate to androidx, that well and good. If you have to keep it at appcompat, then follow the answer.