java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: AppCompat does not support the current theme features

I tried to migrate a project from Eclipse to Android studio. Finally I am able to run it, but at a certain point I got this exception, and I found nothing in google about this:

04-22 00:08:15.484    9891-9891/hu.illion.kwindoo E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{hu.illion.kwindoo/hu.illion.kwindoo.activity.MainActivity}: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: AppCompat does not support the current theme features
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2092)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2117)
    ...    
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: AppCompat does not support the current theme features
    at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.ensureSubDecor(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:360)
    at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:246)
    at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:106)
    at hu.illion.kwindoo.activity.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:73)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5047)
    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1094)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2056)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2117)
    ...

73. line of MainActivity is:

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

Please advice me if you can.

alternative to @sbaar's answer,

keep windowActionBar to false and add windowNoTitleas well and set it to true.

ie

   <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
   <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>

Remove

<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>

from your theme, then make sure you are inheriting from a .NoActionBar Theme, then set your toolbar like normal.

Make sure that your theme is child from Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar, then in styles.xml:

<style name="MyMaterialTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
        <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
        ...
</style>

Btw, it's a new issue for Support Library 22.1.

Check if you call setContentView() after super.onCreate(), and not before. This helped in my case.

Use this parent in Style.xml parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"

Make sure that

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

are at the top of everything this works for me....good luck

in my case i didnt change to .NoActionBar Theme. i just remove android prefix from this item.

<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>

and the error goes away.

if you have added <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>, then ,you need to add

<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>

to solve the problem.

add dependency to gradle like this

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.3'

I solved the issue by my main Activity extending AppCompatActivity :)

I had same issue somewhat, removed android: from my syles.xml as per below;

 <!-- caused crash -->
 <item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
 <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>

 <!-- didn't cause crash -->
 <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
 <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>

I had the same problem when I upgraded the library version from 22.0.0 to 22.1.1 and fixed it by dropping back to the previous version: com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.0.0 and go back to using ActionBarActivity, not AppCompatActivity in my Activity classes as required by the newer version of the compatibility library. I'll try again later.

just Use this in your style.xml no other editing is needed

 <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat">

<!-- theme customizations -->

<item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
</style>

don't add anything in to activity file please leave it

public class Main extends ActionBarActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

 }

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
return true;
} 

@Override
 public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
// Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
// automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
// as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
int id = item.getItemId();
if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
    return true;
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

 }

In Java class change Main extends ActionBarActivity to Main extends Activity. It worked for me.

In my case, I look for @rewrihitesh answer, and I notice that I inverted elements order. Changing from

setContentView(R.layout.activity_test);
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

to

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_test);

Fix my problem.

Hope it helps !!