typekit1.0.1 with appcompat 26 error on AndroidStudio canary 7.0

[KimGenius]

Error:(246, 5) duplicate value for resource 'attr/font' with config ''
Error:(246, 5) resource previously defined here
why this error??

[vickychijwani]

This happens because Android 8.0 (Oreo) added custom font support using the android:font attribute in XML, and Typekit also declares app:font.

@tsengvn could you please fix this? The library is no longer usable with appcompat/support libraries on Android O which was just released a few days ago. To fix it, the font attribute can be renamed to something else that's not used by the system, like fontName (NOTE: typeface and fontFamily won't work, those 2 are used by Android).

[DipaliShah]

you implemented an attr.xml file with a line <attr name="font">. Since Android 8.0 comes with a new feature called 'Fonts in XML' this might be the reason for your Error. You could change the name of the attribute to e.g. <attr name="font_name"> and probably in all your custom views and layout xmls, too. Or just use the new feature ;)

[vickychijwani]

Found a workaround for now - @katoro's fork contains the proposed fix and can be used directly from Jitpack (https://jitpack.io/#katoro/typekit/1.0.1):

// in app/build.gradle:
repositories {
    // ...
    maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
}

dependencies {
    // ...
    compile "com.github.katoro:typekit:1.0.1"
}

Then replace app:font with app:fontName everywhere in your XML layouts.