How to fix: “You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity”

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Your application has an AppCompat theme

<application
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

But, you overwrote the Activity (which extends AppCompatActivity) with a theme that isn’t descendant of an AppCompat theme 

<activity android:name=".MainActivity"
    android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" >

You could define your own fullscreen theme like so (notice AppCompat in the parent=)

<style name="AppFullScreenTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
</style>

Then set that on the Activity. 

<activity android:name=".MainActivity"
    android:theme="@style/AppFullScreenTheme" >

Note: There might be an AppCompat theme that’s already full screen, but don’t know immediately

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