App crashing after adding RecyclerView Library

Hi,
My App crashes with the following piece of Log
01-06 18:54:15.386 16463-16463/com.example.ken.criminalintent E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.example.ken.criminalintent, PID: 16463
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No static method getFont(Landroid/content/Context;ILandroid/util/TypedValue;ILandroid/widget/TextView;)Landroid/graphics/Typeface; in class Landroid/support/v4/content/res/ResourcesCompat; or its super classes (declaration of ‘android.support.v4.content.res.ResourcesCompat’ appears in /data/app/com.example.ken.criminalintent-2/split_lib_dependencies_apk.apk)
at android.support.v7.widget.TintTypedArray.getFont(TintTypedArray.java:119)
at android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextHelper.updateTypefaceAndStyle(AppCompatTextHelper.java:208)
at android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextHelper.loadFromAttributes(AppCompatTextHelper.java:110)
at android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextHelperV17.loadFromAttributes(AppCompatTextHelperV17.java:38)
at android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView.(AppCompatTextView.java:81)
at android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView.(AppCompatTextView.java:71)
at android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView.(AppCompatTextView.java:67)
at android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar.setTitle(Toolbar.java:753)
at android.support.v7.widget.ToolbarWidgetWrapper.setTitleInt(ToolbarWidgetWrapper.java:261)
at android.support.v7.widget.ToolbarWidgetWrapper.setWindowTitle(ToolbarWidgetWrapper.java:243)
at android.support.v7.widget.ActionBarOverlayLayout.setWindowTitle(ActionBarOverlayLayout.java:621)
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV9.onTitleChanged(AppCompatDelegateImplV9.java:631)
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV9.ensureSubDecor(AppCompatDelegateImplV9.java:328)
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV9.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImplV9.java:284)
at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:139)
at com.example.ken.criminalintent.SingleFragmentActivity.onCreate(SingleFragmentActivity.java:18)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6679)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1118)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2618)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2726)
at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap12(ActivityThread.java)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1477)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6119)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:886)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:776)

It runs at the listing on Page 166, but fails when I run it at P172. I tried to identify the error and if I add the RecyclerView Library without changing a line of code from P166 the app crashes.
I am using the latest Android Studio and the library is com.android.support.recyclerview-v7.27.0.2

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I see this was reported earlier and I missed it. Will try to do what it says.

Fixed. I had to change the AppCompatActivity library from V26 to V27

Good tip, this error was a show stopper for me.