Cannot resolve symbol 'widget' for import androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatImageView;

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I'm currently migrating my project to Androidx, after using the refactor option in android studio I still have few support lib imports in classes. When I tried changing 'import android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatImageView;' to 'import androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatImageView;', I got below compile error

Cannot resolve symbol 'widget'

I'm currently using 'Android Studio Electric Eel | 2022.1.1 (Jan 2023)' and all the support dependencies are replaced with androidx.

update your android sdk tools

Sasi Kumar
– Sasi Kumar

2024-04-10 13:54:36 +00:00
Commented Apr 10, 2024 at 13:54 — Sasi Kumar
– Sasi Kumar, Commented Apr 10, 2024 at 13:54

Ryan M · Accepted Answer · 2024-04-11 02:45:45Z

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It sounds like the appcompat library didn't get added to your Gradle dependencies properly.

As described on the appcompat page on the Android Developers site, add the following to the dependencies { block of your app-level build.gradle:

def appcompat_version = "1.6.1" // or whatever the latest version is on the above-linked page

implementation "androidx.appcompat:appcompat:$appcompat_version"
// For loading and tinting drawables on older versions of the platform
implementation "androidx.appcompat:appcompat-resources:$appcompat_version"

answered Apr 11, 2024 at 2:45

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