Attribute "primaryColor" has already been defined error

[snorkel123]

Alongside with MaterialEditText I use neokree/MaterialTabs. Both libs use "primaryColor" attribute.
Attribute "primaryColor" has already been defined occurs.

Possible solutions:

1. Replace app:primaryColor with rengwuxian:primaryColor
2. Or pick up primaryColor attr from theme declaration

[rengwuxian]

Ahhh. Sorry for that. I've no idea. Maybe I should pick a odder name for this attribute?

[marcusforsberg]

I also have this issue, which currently prevents me from using this library. I'd say option 2 is the way to go, simply taking the attribute from the theme. :)

[snorkel123]

Possible way out is to search primaryColor specified, if there is none fallback to app:primaryColor

[saket]

This is a big issue and makes the library totally unusable on apps that use AppCompat.

[snorkel123]

@rengwuxian Please don't PR, it solves issue in not the best way

[mdzeko]

The same thing happens with Attribute "color" has already been defined. Probably because of the appcompat-v7 lib. Possible similar issue on https://github.com/neokree/MaterialTabs/issues/29

[lidemin]

Apparently the attr "primaryColor" has been defined in some libraries. I tried to fork the library and change that attr to something else which resolved this issue. Please consider to change its name . BTW the library is pretty awesome. Thanks.

[snorkel123]

Issue should be solved by picking up "primaryColor" attribute from theme definition

[carstenhag]

👍 Still broken after 5 weeks :(

[rengwuxian]

Hi all,

Sorry for the delayed reply. MaterialEditText 2.0 is gonna be released in about 2 weeks. That will include some bug fixes and introduce a lot of customizations. About this issue, I decide to add a new attribute named like metPrimaryColor or something, and keep the standard primaryColor.

Some mentioned about retrieving the colorPrimary attribute. In fact, MaterialEditText does retrieve it: It tries to retrieve the android:colorPrimary on Lollipop devices, and fallback to the colorPrimary which is defined in the AppCompat series themes attribute if the OS version is below Lollipop or there's no android:colorPrimary attribute. However, retrieving android:colorPrimary or colorPrimary will just be a fallback, because there're some old themes that have neither android:colorPrimary nor colorPrimary.

Or if you have better solutions, let me know please.

Thanks!

[carstenhag]

neokree/MaterialTabs#38 Has been merged, so basically it half-way resolves this issue too. There just need to be a new release on their half, see https://github.com/neokree/MaterialTabs/issues/20

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For people who can't wait for either project to release a new version:
Clone the MaterialTabs repo, import it in Android Studio via File > Import Module..., Click on your app folder in the Project Tab, press F4, select your app and add a Module dependency for MaterialTabsModule.

[rengwuxian]

Hi all,

2.0.3 has been released, introducing a unified prefix 'met_'

You can check the latest library version now.