Theme used in the library conflicts with others

If you use this library you get an error that the app theme is already defined (in my own project). To fix this, you can for example add tools:replace="android:icon, android:label, android:theme, android:name" in your application tag in the manifest. However, this causes instability with other libraries such as com.daimajia.slider:library:1.1.5.

Giving the error

Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #83: Error inflating class com.daimajia.slider.library.SliderLayout

Is there a way to make them all work happily together?

[avluis]

@passy

Just wanted to update this.

The issue is simple: If your app and the library have anything that is incompatible by the merge tool, then you’ll get this error.

The merge tool is complaining about the theme attribute value (@style/AppTheme) but when I quickly scan the library, I don’t see it - so the error it throws is not helpful. What is helpful is the suggestion.

It literally means just that - to override the manifest merge (which should fix the issue), add 'tools:replace=“android:theme” to your <application> tag. That should let you compile. If you still cannot compile, make sure you don’t have any tools:ignore statements, that seems to break it - I’m referring to com.gu.option, even maven complains about it:

Not Found: /artifact/com.gu/option/1.3

[geeteshk]

Gentlemen I have found a workaround for those facing this issue. It seems to only show up when android:theme is set for the <application> tag. Remove it and add it to each of your activities separately. Worked fine for me.