failed to find style 'cardView Style' in current theme

Question

After updating support library version 27.1.0 Android Studio unable to render CardView. It shows error message as

failed to find style 'cardView Style' in current theme

But no error in compiling and no difference while seeing on the phone.

I have reverted the support library version to 27.0.2 and it's rendering fine.

The issue with support library or Android studio? How to fix this?

App Level Gradle:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
apply plugin: 'realm-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 27
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.tmmmt.tmmmt"
        minSdkVersion 19
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            buildConfigField 'String', 'FS_CLIENT_ID', FOURSQUARE_CLIENT_ID
            buildConfigField 'String', 'FS_CLIENT_SECRET', FOURSQUARE_CLIENT_SECRET
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
        debug {
            minifyEnabled false
            buildConfigField 'String', 'FS_CLIENT_ID', FOURSQUARE_CLIENT_ID
            buildConfigField 'String', 'FS_CLIENT_SECRET', FOURSQUARE_CLIENT_SECRET
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }

    flavorDimensions "default"

    productFlavors {
        dev {
            dimension "default"
            versionNameSuffix "-dev"
            buildConfigField 'String', 'BASE_URL', BASE_URL_DEV
            manifestPlaceholders = [GEO_API_KEY: GOOGLE_MAP_KEY_DEV]
        }

        beta {
            dimension "default"
            versionNameSuffix "-beta"
            buildConfigField 'String', 'BASE_URL', BASE_URL_BETA
            manifestPlaceholders = [GEO_API_KEY: GOOGLE_MAP_KEY_BETA]
        }

        live {
            dimension "default"
            buildConfigField 'String', 'BASE_URL', BASE_URL_LIVE

            manifestPlaceholders = [GEO_API_KEY: GOOGLE_MAP_KEY_LIVE]
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jre7:$kotlin_version"
    implementation "org.jetbrains.anko:anko-common:$anko_version"
    implementation "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:$support_version"
    implementation "com.android.support:support-v13:$support_version"
    implementation "com.android.support:design:$support_version"
    implementation "com.android.support:cardview-v7:$support_version"
    implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:$play_version"
    implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:$play_version"
    implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:$play_version"
    implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2'
    implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.3.0'
    implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.3.0'
    implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:logging-interceptor:3.8.0'
    implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.8.1'
    implementation 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2'
    implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.0'
    implementation 'com.wang.avi:library:2.1.3'
    implementation 'com.tmmmt.library:arrowtab:1.3'
    implementation 'com.github.stfalcon:chatkit:0.2.2'
    implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-android-sdk-core:2.6.16'
    implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-android-sdk-cognito:2.6.16'
    implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-android-sdk-s3:2.6.16'
    implementation 'com.orhanobut:logger:2.1.1'
    implementation 'com.tmmmt.library:animations:0.6'
    implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.6.1'
    annotationProcessor 'com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:4.6.1'
    compile('io.socket:socket.io-client:1.0.0') {
        exclude group: 'org.json', module: 'json'
    }
    /*Fort*/
    implementation project(':FortSDKv1.4.1')
    implementation 'com.victor:lib:1.0.1'
    implementation 'com.shamanland:fonticon:0.1.8'
    implementation('com.nispok:snackbar:2.11.0') {
        exclude group: 'com.google.android', module: 'support-v4'
    }
    implementation 'com.google.guava:guava:23.0-android'
    implementation 'org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk16:1.46'
    implementation 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.10'
    /*Fort*/
}

apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

Project Level Gradle:

buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = '1.2.30'
    ext.anko_version = '0.10.1'
    ext.support_version = '27.1.0'
    ext.play_version = '11.8.0'
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1'
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
        classpath "io.realm:realm-gradle-plugin:4.3.2"
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.1.0'
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
        maven {
            url "https://mymavenrepo.com/repo/eDGOo6Dqr4f6uNA0HoWX/"
            credentials {
                username = 'myMavenRepo'
                password = 'tmmmt123'
            }
        }
    }
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

Update:

There is no such error from Android Studio 3.2. The error was gone completely.

Answer 1

Checking the source of CardView one can see that the constructor

public CardView(@NonNull Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    initialize(context, attrs, 0);
}

has been changed to

public CardView(@NonNull Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs) {
    this(context, attrs, R.attr.cardViewStyle);
}

And the new attribute cardViewStyle is defined in the library. I guess that the Android Studio preview is not including the value for this attribute from the library, for some reason. I'm not sure if it usually resolves custom attributes defined in libraries and this is a bug, or if this is intended.

Workaround 1

Resolve the attribute in your theme (maybe only in debug version), this way the error is gone. @style/CardView is already defined in the support library so you don't need to create the style, just reference it.

<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="cardViewStyle">@style/CardView</item>
</style>

Be sure to use AppTheme in the layout preview and clean build.

Workaround 2

Add the style with tools namespace so that it won't affect your production code. The rendering error will be logged, but you will see the CardView anyway

<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
    tools:style="@style/CardView"
    ...

Good news

Android Studio 3.1 seems to be handling this correctly, no workaround needed (the error in the layout preview is still logged though).

On Android Studio 3.2 (currently in Canary channel) the error is gone.