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I'm using Android Studio Dolphin | 2021.3.1 & Electric Eel | 2022.1.1
After updating Android studio chipmunk | 2021.2.1 to Android studio Dolphin | 2021.3.1 my all project design preview and layout preview not showing.
If anyone solved this issue please help me.
I have tried all possible ways but didn't find any solution for this.
Below are points that I have tried
Invalidate caches.
Restart IDE.
Repair IDE.
Update Gradle plugin version to 7.3.0 from setting project structure (No working)
Check the Below screenshot so everyone gets an idea of what I have issue faced.
Thanks in advance.
For me, some layouts are working fine but in some layouts, I am getting the below error which used to work in earlier versions of Android Studio.
The same issue I faced in Android (Electric Eel | 2022.1.1). Still, this Issue continues.
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After alot of searching and testing, I upgraded my gradle version and its work for me.
Just goto
File -> Project Structure
or press
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + S
and then
upgrate the gradle version
as shown in the image below and then
invalidate cache and restart
the Android Studio and its working
As shown in the image I upgrade my gradle.
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Apparently, there are many people
reporting the exact same issue to Google
but no concrete solution has been given so far:
Issues with Layout Preview in AS since Dolphin
Layout rendering inside AS stops on most of layout after upgrade to 2021.3.1 RC 1 (worked on Chipmunk)
NPE in AarResourceRepositoryCache.createCachingData (AS Dolphin+)
Dolphin continuously refuses to show Design Layouts
Layout editor preview almost always broken
Layout previews have stopped working
I tried most of the suggestions from the other answers, but the only thing that has worked for me so far was
upgrading to
Flamingo
(
2022.2.1 Canary 10
) or
downgrading to
Chipmunk
(
2021.2.1 Patch 2
).
These solutions are obviously far from ideal, but until Google decides to fix this in either
Dolphin
or
Electric Eel
, I believe that's what we're stuck with.
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In my case, I found two situations.
1. Include
the android studio can't show the XML if it contains the "
include
" tag.
My project has more than 100+ XML files that have the
include
, and none of them can show the preview. Otherwise, it was fine.
Setting the app theme doesn't work for this case.
Edit: Custom font can be a problem
Still I am not sure, but loading font can be a problem.
I set
isEditMode()
condition to all
Typeface
, and it looks like the preview rendering issue was solved.
2. Setting app theme
On top of the preview screen, you can select the app theme. (If you can't find it, try enlarging the android window itself. Then the hidden app theme menu will be revealed.)
Then, try setting some theme, such as "AppTheme" or "BaseTheme", etc. Then, for some cases, this will show you the preview.
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Frankly guys tried everything as suggested in mentioned answers, but doesn't seems to work for me, might be a recent Android Studio bug.
Sharing something what worked for me (workaround, not a fix)
I accidentally clicked the
LayoutValidation
tab as mentioned in screenshot, and for now using it to preview my design while updating XML code. Preview gets updated as you make changes.
But yes this might not be helpful if want to make changes using design.
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I tried to update gradle but not work with me.
so after that i changed them from
Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.NoActionBar
Theme.Material3.DayNight.NoActionBar
work with me
if this solution does not work with you
add this line to root group view in layout
android:theme="@style/Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.DarkActionBar.Bridge"
another solution
down material version to this version
material_version = '1.6.1'
I hope that helps you.
I have same issue as above just solved by doing below things
Setting - SDK tools and check for Android Emulator Update
just Update it and Rebuild project and Done
No need to downgrade API versions.
Note - if not work after it just try to invalidate cach and restart
Option 2
after doing above task try to just update or select app theme from above preview design
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New solution:
I just tried the latest canary build of Android Studio Flamingo and it seems that the layout preview is now fixed! At least it works for me again without any problems, with MDC 1.8.0-alpha03 and the latest gradle plugin and gradle version.
Old solution:
It appears to be a bug in Dolphin in connection with API 33, but for me at least the layout preview toolbar is shown. In case the preview toolbar is somehow accessible, the following workaround solves the disappeared preview (at least for me):
Select API 32 in the layout toolbar instead of the preselected API 33.
Then the preview is shown to me as it should and I do not have to downgrade anything and can use the latest gradle version.
Starting with Android Studio Chipmunk, if you're seeing java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: view_tree_saved_state_registry_owner or java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: androidx.savedstate.R$id in the issues panel, make sure to include a debugImplementation dependency to androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-savedstate in your module.
If you're seeing java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: view_tree_lifecycle_owner in the issues panel, make sure to include a debugImplementation dependency to androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-runtime in your module.
If you're seeing java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class androidx.customview.poolingcontainer.PoolingContainer or java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: androidx/customview/poolingcontainer/PoolingContainerListener in the issues panel, make sure to include a debugImplementation dependency to androidx.customview:customview-poolingcontainer in your module.
Issue tracker : https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/247058594
Workaround Solution : File - Project Structure -
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I'm on Android Studio Electric Eel and I managed to fix the issue after a whole day of trying by replacing com.google.android.material:material version 1.8.0 with 1.7.0.
Even though 1.8.0 is now 'stable' it was the one causing the issue.
In my case solve this issue I do following steps
First I just update Gradle plugin version to 7.3.0 from setting project structure (No working)
after that I also update com.google.gms:google-services version to 4.3.14
now every things work fine.
I was using custom views, styles and fonts from a library and ran into this when upgrading to Dolphin. I fixed the issue by upgrading the libraries compile SDK to 33. Upgraded gradle to 7.3 and upgraded androidx.appcompat:appcompat to 1.4+
Once you do that, invalidate caches and rebuild and it should work.
Google is aware of this issue https://issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=dolphin%20layout%20preview
Downgrading to Chipmunk until a patch is released will also fix the issue if you can't or wont upgrade.
For you that because of others dependencies cannot update the Android Gradle Plugin:
You'll have to wait a little bit, the devs are already aware. There should eventually be a version to correct this.
For now what you can do to keep working is downgrading the Android Studio Version to Chipmunk | 2021.2.1 (or older)
Maybe it's not going to fix your problem. But it may helps someone who gets into the same trouble as I had. I have an extended layout, the exception says it's not able to initial this class, and pointing to a singleton property variable.
private SingletonProperty property = SingletonProperty.getInstance();
Turns out it's not possible to have a singleton field in a layout class(which it's okay before Android Studio Dolphin). Everything works fine after I move it into several methods. Don't forget to build your project after this.
For me, disabling assertions fixed the issue.
I found the fix here: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/255525863
To disable assertions, add -da to Custom VM Options:
In case that Android Studio won't start after applying the new options,
the custom VM options file is located at:
macOS:
~/Library/Application Support/Google/AndroidStudio2021.3/studio.vmoptions
Open Layout Validation tab from right side or search it from toolbar search menu
now see the issue in my case is inside MaterialAutoCompleteTextView
after investigating issue is
android:fontFamily="More Fonts..." font is not point to right one 
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