I know there are a number of posts on this but I have tried the tips in all of them and have been banging my head agains this for days now!

I am using Android Studio Koala 2024.1.1.
Part of build.gradle is below.
Part of my manifest is below.
My themes are below.

Despite:
Enabling androidx AND
Trying all the mentioned dependencies in various posts, AND
Being careful to reference themes correctly (and tried @style/ and no @style/ at start of referce) AND
Invalidate cache and restart AND
Clean project

Whenever I try to
Build -> Rebuild Project Or
Build -> Generate Signed APK

I get

ERROR: AAPT: error: resource style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar (aka org.gearlog.app:style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar) not found.
error: failed linking references.

Supporting info:

build.gradle (app) dependencies (I know this is too many – just showing all that I have tried!):

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
    implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:0.68.2"  
    implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0'
    implementation 'com.android.support:support-v4:28.0.0'
    implementation 'com.android.support:design:28.0.0'
    implementation "androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.7.0"
    implementation "androidx.appcompat:appcompat-resources:1.7.0"

}

AndroidManifest part:

 <application
      android:name=".MainApplication"
      android:allowBackup="true"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
      android:theme="@style/AppTheme"
      android:usesCleartextTraffic="true">
        <activity 
            android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:theme="@style/SplashTheme"

Themes

   <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <item name="android:textColor">#000000</item>
        <item name="android:statusBarColor">@color/app_bg</item>
        <item name="android:windowLightStatusBar">false</item>
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/app_bg</item>
        <item name="android:editTextBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>
    </style>


    <style name="SplashTheme" parent="AppTheme">
        <item name="android:statusBarColor">@color/splashscreen_bg</item>
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/splash_screen</item>
        <item name="android:windowLightStatusBar">false</item>
    </style>

If anyone could help I would be SO grateful!