Unsupported node 'item' in style.xml

Question

Runtime error for task: app: mergeDebugResources.

Unsupported node "element" in file

I have such an error, and the answer I found here cannot answer my problem.

This is my .xml style

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"></style> <item name="android:colorPrimary">@color/PrimaryColor</item> <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">@color/PrimaryDarkColor</item> <item name="android:statusBarColor">@android:color/transparent</item> <!-- Customize your theme here. --> <!-- ************************ |||||||||||||||||||||||| HEADER |||||||||||||||||||||||| ************************ --> <style name="Header.TitleText" parent="android:TextAppearance.Holo"> <item name="android:fontFamily" tools:ignore="NewApi">sans-serif-light</item> <item name="android:textColor" >@android:color/white</item> <item name="android:textSize">50sp</item> <item name="android:shadowColor">#8000</item> <item name="android:shadowRadius">5</item> <item name="android:shadowDx">2</item> <item name="android:shadowDy">2</item> </style> <style name="Header.SubTitleText" parent="Header.TitleText"> <item name="android:fontFamily" tools:ignore="NewApi">sans-serif-condensed</item> <item name="android:textSize">20sp</item> </style> 

Answer 1

Error in this line

  <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"></style> 

each element must be defined between the open and close style tags. In your case they are outside. You must have

 <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"> <item name="android:colorPrimary">@color/PrimaryColor</item> <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">@color/PrimaryDarkColor</item> <item name="android:statusBarColor">@android:color/transparent</item> </style> 

instead

 <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"></style> <item name="android:colorPrimary">@color/PrimaryColor</item> <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">@color/PrimaryDarkColor</item> <item name="android:statusBarColor">@android:color/transparent</item>