I have installed an android studio and tried to create my first project. But preview tab is not visible.
I checked it in the View -> Tools Window but the preview is also not present there.
Even Design/Text tab is not visible in the android studio. I checked the earlier posts in stackoverflow but have not been able to resolve this problem.
Like this one : Where is Android Studio layout preview?
Not able to show you the image as this is my first question and I have only 1 reputation. :(
Please suggest a way to find it.
Thanks in advance
As per the screenshot your project structure is not as per it should be. Reason is clearly visible in the picture, Your SDK buttons in tool bar are grayed in screen shot that means there is some problem in the SDK path.
please set your SDK path from
File > Project Structure > Android SDK
And after that sync your project with gradle using the tiny gradle button available in tool bar.
Not even the preview, you will not see any android specific tabs if your sdk path is not correct.
For reference your studio will look like this after correct sdk
I had the problem of not seeing a preview tab, or the design and text tab. After playing around with it for a while I found that the problem was that my Gradle was messed up. I went to the Gradle Console (bottom right corner of the screen) and opened it. I asked me to import Gradle project (the one I was working on) and it worked. Sorry if that doesn't make sense, I am very new to Android Studio
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Not sure where to post this issue I have with Android Studio IDE, I hope it can be answered here.
When I open the Asset Studio in Android Studio by right clicking on my Android Module and selecting new -> Image Asset I cannot get past the first screen. Even when I leave this default, when I try and press next the Asset Window start shaking shortly after a second or two.
I encountered this problem with a prior version of Android Stuido but an update to the latest version did not help.
I tried updating the android SDK and build tools since they are obviously related but without success.
I tried restarting Android Studio but the "bug" still remains.
Perhaps I am doing something wrong, I created a video of my workflow and the issue I am encountering.
I had the same problem.
In the Legacy tab, I set the Google Play Store Icon to No and I could pass the first screen.
I had exactly the same problem while I was trying to create adaptive icon from vector graphics.
What helped me was that I need to set Size to 108 dp x 108 dp when I imported Vector Asset (res -> right click -> New -> Vector Asset).
I have faced the same issue with vectors that had a dashed line. Android Studio doesn't support dashed-strokes by default. You can check what is not supported in this link Dashes stroke-dasharray in Android Vector. So in such cases Android Studio just doesn't show any error upfront.
In your case I see its happening even for normal vectors.
To check why its failing notice every time it fails the exclamation mark at the extreme bottom right of Android Studio turns red and flashes. Just close pop up window of Android Studio and click on the red exclamation mark. It will give you the reason why its failing. Although there was nothing much I could do about it maybe you can figure out whats wrong.
I know it's been answered but here's another thing that might fix someone else's problem when adding an asset and getting the weird shaky window error: check the asset dimensions you're importing.
I was trying to add a Vector Asset with dimensions about 23dp x 1077dp (really big height and small width), and for some reason Android Studio didn't accept it. After changing it to a dimension bigger than 170dp x 8137.3dp (it scales automatically) it worked. Then I went on the .xml file and changed it to a dimension I wanted, preserving the proportion of mostly 200dp in width or height as prompted by Lint in a warning.
I don't really know why it worked but I managed to add the asset. If anyone knows it, feel free to explain.
Steps:
1) Have you tried setting it manually through file explorer/directories etc.?
2) Maybe try a drawable importer? Like this.
3) Have a look at this answer, it might help.
4) Try completely uninstalling Android Studio, re-download and install again, if all else fails.
As per your project structure, I believe this is not a native application.
That's right, Flutter projects are not Android projects. Many Android tools are enabled only for projects that have an Android facet. Adding that to Flutter projects causes many problems, so we don't do that and this functionality available for only in native android application.
Furthermore,If you want to use may be it'll help you.
Open android studio File->Open folder->navigate to your flutter project and select the Android folder. Wait for it to sync, then navigate inside the Android studio folder and find the res folder right click on it and choose New you will see the Image asset studio.
This happened to me and the problem was that the dimensions of my source image were too small, which I think is the takeaway from all the other answers as well.
In my case the issue was caused by some unusual project structure, including some source directories added manually within the module.
The only solution was to create a new sample project in Android Studio, use the Asset Editor, generate all the assets to finally copy those to my "unusual" project.
One could also read the IDE (Android Studio) logs to see exception that are being thrown when the editor windows shakes as it's described by the Author of this thread.
I have a problem in preview my image in ImageView in Xamarin Visual Studio in the design. However, the image appear on AVD when run the solution on it.
Some screen shots are below.
As you see, I added two images and set the src correctly for them but they doesn't appear in the design:
And when run the code on AVD, all images were appeared:
I want to make the images appear in the design to make whatever changes I need before upload the code on AVD.
After a lot of searches I found the solution on Microsoft site here
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt613162.aspx
I finally solved the problem.
The problem was solved via update the Xamarin to latest version... Tools > Options > Xamarin > Others and click on "check now" as appear in the image
Here
If there is a new version it will appear to install.
All thing go right After installing the latest version.
I have a really wired issue.
Everything worked fine yesterday, but today when I opened the Eclipse and trying to open a layout it looks like this:
As you can see there is nothing shown(Not the name of the layout, not design and graphical tabs).
I already tried the following:
To upgrade everything in the SDK manager.
To restart everything including my computer(which in most of the time fix any problem in eclipse).
Shift+Alt+F7 doesn't work.
UPDATE:
Add to done list:
Re-Open Perspective
Window>> Reset Perspective
This is my Error Log:
right click on the layout you want to open and choose
Open with >> Android Common XML Editor,
try this as well
Window>> Reset Perspective
sometime graphical layout show. but nothing showing. only blank. this is happen because the manifest minimum sdk is not support to view the layout.to resolve that change the api level which display in the right corner of layout display area.
There are 2 solutions that found:
Convert the project to Android Studio.(I don't take it because I've a complex project)
I Re-install the Eclipse.
Hope that it will help someone to save some time.
My situation is: I once made an android project(2.2 version) but soon needed to format my computer. After formatting, I downloaded eclipse again but when I imported my project, I wasn't able to use the 'graphical layout' menu for xml. It doesn't show me anything like the picture below.
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3586/19978552.png
I cleaned the project and updated the Android SDK, however, none of these seemed to work well. What could be causing this?
Try restarting Eclipse. Usually that solves the problem for me when that happens.
Right click on your layout xml file and select Open With -> Android Layout Editor. It will force eclipse to open file in android's layout editor mode
None of above worked for me. what worked for me is:
1- Select a Google APIs Project Build Target rather than one of the Android X.X ones. This setting is in right click on project -> Properties->Android.
2- Make a change in XML and save it. Now switch back to "Graphical Layout" and it will show the layout.
For some, only 2nd step works.
This Question was asked 3 year ago, I am sure that you have get your solution, however i was also facing the same problem but got the solution in eclipse, here it is:-
1)Goto help->AboutEclipse->Installation details.
2)check the version of Android DDMS, Android development tool, Android hierarchy viewer, Android native development tool, Android trace view and tracer for openGl ES in installed software tab.
3)If they have different version than you have to update all of them.
4)Goto help->check for update in eclipse and follow the instruction.
5)Then restart eclipse.
This solve my problem.
The topic seems a little bit cold, but I wanted to add it nonetheless.
I had a similar problem with my layouts recently. When i create a project it automatically creates the layouts in the latest version of Android (eclipse shows it as version 22 of android as of today). But i can't see anything. So i just change the version to, say 18, and it shows ok. Furthermore if i want to change it back to version 22 it throws and exception, saying that a class can't be instantiated. (I am probably missing a class or a library on my system.)
Therefore if you cant see the layout it might be a good idea to switch back to earlier versions for development. cheers.
After upgrading the Android SDK through the AVD manager, I cannot preview XML layouts any longer in eclipse for Android 2.2 previews. Eclipse says, "LayoutLib is too recent. Update your tool!"
Using the drop-down and choosing any other platform works fine. Why is this happening for Android 2.2 previews?
I have also updated the ADT plugin for ecplise as well. Any suggestions?
This is a bug: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17369
Updating from 10.0.1 to 12.0.0 resolved this issue for me.
In Eclipse, Help --> Check for updates
You'll likely see three items to be updated to 12.0.0+. Install, restart Eclipse, and the layout view should display without error.
More of a fix than an answer, or a fix with no explanation: r-click on the res\layout*.xml file you want to open, select Open with, then select Android Layout Editor. That should open the .xml in the graphical layout/design view you're used to.
For whatever reason, after updating from 10.0.1 to 12.0.0, my layout viewer default changed to XML Editor (one of the options under the context menu referenced above), and I have to manually open with different editor. Opening manually selecting Android Layout Editor seems to set ALE as the default for that .xml file going forward.
I had the same issue. Went in Eclipse->Help->CheckforUpdates. Selected everything there and hit next. Keep hitting next until finish. The update will start at the bottom right hand corner. Will also ask for permission. Press "OK". Will restart eclipse and problem is solved. I guess there was a bug with ADT but whatever this update fixed it.