Changing Material Components style attributes fails

Question

I am trying to change the style attributes from the Material Components Theme (like colorPrimaryVariant, colorOnSecondary and so on) but I get the following error:

Android resource linking failed
Output:      C:\...\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:3835: error: style attribute 'attr/colorPrimaryVariant (aka com.sample.app:attr/colorPrimaryVariant)' not found.
C:\...\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:3836: error: style attribute 'attr/colorOnPrimary (aka com.sample.app:attr/colorOnPrimary)' not found.
C:\...\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:3839: error: style attribute 'attr/colorSecondaryVariant (aka com.sample.app:attr/colorSecondaryVariant)' not found.
C:\...\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeDebugResources\merged.dir\values\values.xml:3840: error: style attribute 'attr/colorOnSecondary (aka com.sample.app:attr/colorOnSecondary)' not found.
error: failed linking references.

This is what my theme looks like:

<resources>

    <!-- Light application theme -->
    <style name="CBTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/cbPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/cbPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryVariant">@color/cbPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorOnPrimary">#FFFFFF</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/cbAccent</item>
        <item name="colorSecondary">@color/cbAccent</item>
        <item name="colorSecondaryVariant">@color/cbAccentLight</item>
        <item name="colorOnSecondary">#FFFFFF</item>
        <item name="colorError">@color/cbRed</item>

        <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/lightThemeBackground1</item>
    </style>

    [...]

</resources>

If I don't add the four affected attributes everything works fine. My minSdkVersion is 16, compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion are 28. I also tried to use the Bridge themes but I get the same error. I double-checked my dependencies and everything seems correct. What am I missing?

Answer 1

It looks like 1.1.0 (currently in alpha) has resolved this issue:

implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.1.0-alpha09'