The application crashes when switching to another Activity, after setting it to a different theme from the main one. How to fix?

Question

Android

Here is the manifest file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.android.developer.a0002_actionbar" >

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light" >
        <activity
            android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity
            android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark"
            android:name=".AnotherActivity"
            android:label="@string/title_activity_another"
            android:parentActivityName=".MainActivity" >
            <meta-data
                android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
                android:value="com.android.developer.a0002_actionbar.MainActivity" />
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

As soon as I remove the last line from here:

</activity>
        <activity
            android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark

Everything works again. Isn't it possible to override the theme for each Activity?
Logs (I don’t know much about them yet, especially when it comes to system files):

09-02 15:56:55.561  10335-10335/com.android.developer.a0002_actionbar E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: com.android.developer.a0002_actionbar, PID: 10335
    java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.android.developer.a0002_actionbar/com.android.developer.a0002_actionbar.AnotherActivity}: java.lang.IllegalStateException: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity.
            at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2416)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2476)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(ActivityThread.java)
            at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1344)
            at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
            at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)
     Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity.
            at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplBase.onCreate(AppCompatDelegateImplBase.java:112)
            at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.onCreate(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:148)
            at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.onCreate(AppCompatActivity.java:60)
            at com.android.developer.a0002_actionbar.AnotherActivity.onCreate(AnotherActivity.java:14)
            at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6237)
            at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1107)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2369)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2476)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(ActivityThread.java)
            at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1344)
            at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
            at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)

The line with "You need to use AppCompact theme or descend" is even more incomprehensible, because I already use it.
In general, help whoever can =)

Answer 1

I'm sorry, the problem has been removed, it turns out ThemeOverlaythat Themenot particularly related things X) But if someone has something useful to add, I'll mark it with solutions =)