Stuck on an issue?

Lightrun Answers was designed to reduce the constant googling that comes with debugging 3rd party libraries. It collects links to all the places you might be looking at while hunting down a tough bug.

And, if you’re still stuck at the end, we’re happy to hop on a call to see how we can help out.

Getting "class file for androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity not found" while building

See original GitHub issue

I’m getting an error while building the app in Android Studio:

.../node_modules/capacitor-fcm/android/capacitor-fcm/src/main/java/io/stewan/capacitor/fcm/FCMPlugin.java:96: error: cannot access AppCompatActivity
        FirebaseInstanceId.getInstance().getInstanceId().addOnSuccessListener(getActivity(),  new OnSuccessListener<InstanceIdResult>() {
                                                                                         ^
  class file for androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity not found

I’m using @capacitor/core v 2.0.0 and @capacitor/android v 2.0.0

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

8reactions

stewonescommented, Jun 29, 2020

FWIW I’ve just faced the same issue

to fix it add this to your app gradle.properties

android.useAndroidX=true
android.enableJetifier=true

clean project + rebuild in Android Studio

5reactions

Ajax-uacommented, Apr 8, 2020

Removing and adding Android platform has solved the issue. Thanks

Top Results From Across the Web

class file for androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity not ...

My current work around is to add implementation "androidx. appcompat:appcompat:1.2. 0" into the build. gradle dependencies block for the plugin ...

android - can't resolve AppCompatActivity - Stack Overflow

Solution : Go to your build.gradle file and in your dependencies find the appcompat one, something like compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:XX.X.X'.

Different Ways to fix Cannot resolve symbol ... - GeeksforGeeks

Go to your build.gradle(Module:app) file and in the dependencies section the appcompat one, you should see something like compile 'com.android.

class file for androidx.appcompat.app ... - CodeRanch

AppCompatActivity not found "? The class is being called from inside an aar library file. The class which extends the AppCompatActivity class does...

AppCompatActivity - Android Developers

This method is called whenever the user chooses to navigate Up within your application's activity hierarchy from the action bar. @Nullable ActionMode.