Android Studio XML doesn't show anything in Design View. (empty screen)

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I checked other questions, but they all are about blank screen(white screen or theme). But in my case, it shows literally nothing.

I tried 'Force Refresh Layout'. But It didn't work. And only reboot can solve problem. just closing and opening Android Studio doesn't solve this problem(I even tried with removing cache and restart.)

Which one of Android Studio is related to Design View? I don't want to reboot and even though I reboot, this problem keep occurring, So, I need some better way to solve this problem.

in root constraintLayout change android:layoutHeight:wrap_content to android:layoutHeight:match_parent — farid
– farid, Commented Feb 16, 2022 at 6:50
It's very old question. but for someone who is suffering the same problem. I think I solved it by solving the warnings(the yellow ones) — c-an
– c-an, Commented Jun 16, 2023 at 14:03

mez moh · Accepted Answer · 2025-01-09 13:10:48Z

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Just reload gradle project from android studio gradle

answered Jan 9 at 13:10

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Rahul Pandey · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-16 07:27:47Z

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Try this solution and see if any one actually works

Update your constraint layout dependency change the dependencies in your gradle module file to something like this Specially and sync it implementation'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.1.1'

dependencies {

    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.3.1'
    implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.4.0'
    implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.1.1'
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.+'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.3'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.4.0'
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
}

Invalidate Cache/restart File>Invalidate Cache/restart
Disable and Enable android support apk File>Settings>plugins>Under Installed section -> disable and enable and see if it works

edited Feb 16, 2022 at 7:27

answered Feb 16, 2022 at 6:48

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ProjectDelta Over a year ago

Tried all of the above, still not rendering anything, only for some views, and those views did work previously

Aishwarya · Accepted Answer · 2023-02-01 11:50:53Z

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You will be able to see if you use any Theme.AppCompat theme to your constraint layout. For example

android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar"

answered Feb 1, 2023 at 11:50

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