Android Tutorial Noobs Guide to Using AppCompat

I found myself increasingly frustrated by my attempts to use the all the amazing AppCompat libraries and tutorials only to end up with reams of Java errors.
So to help those who might have/be struggling like I did I hope this helps.

The first thing you need to make sure of is that you copy the correct jar files to the libraries folder

android-support-v4.jar
android-support-v7-appcompat.jar

You get these from your Android SDK folder.. but make sure they are very latest. So update you SDk first.

Then go to

android-sdk\extras\android\support\v7\appcompat\libs

copy the 2 files from there to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Anywhere Software\Basic4android\Libraries

and then you need the resource folder in your program
that folder is the one from the example in the thread
Just download and copy across the resource folder to your programs folder


and these entries at the start

#AdditionalRes: ..\resource
#AdditionalRes: $AndroidSDK$\extras\android\support\v7\appcompat\res, android.support.v7.appcompat
#AdditionalRes: $AdditionalLibs$\b4a_appcompat, de.amberhome.objects.appcompat

#Extends: android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity

I have no doubt that the experts are going to chime in and tell me I got something wrong. Please do.

This is just my experience and how I muddled through it.​

 

[DonManfred]

copy the 2 files from there to

They should be placed in the additional libs folder, not the internal libs folder

 

[konradwalsh]

They should be placed in the additional libs folder, not the internal libs folder

I suggest people try both as for me they only worked in the program files library