Android Studio Does Not Show Layout Preview

Android Studio Layout preview not showing design

I don't know what was wrong, but below steps solved my problem:

1. Clear caches folder from C:/Users//.grade/caches
2. Clear caches folder from C:/Users//.AndroidStuido3.x/system/caches
3. Restart Android Studio
4. Clean build project

After hours of experimenting and going through lots of solutions, this was the one that actually worked.

Hope anyone in the future faces this problem will find this helpful.

Android Studio XML preview not showing

I had the same issue it seems some problem with the alpha material library
I downgraded the material library dependency in the build.gradle to
implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0'

then invalidated the cache and restarted the studio from

File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart...

It worked.

Where is the layout preview in Android Studio?

UPDATE 2 (2020-03-16)

The newer Android Studio version changed the location of this button. Now if you want to see the layout design preview you will need to press one of the buttons at the top right of your xml. The button that looks like an image icon will open the design dashboard, while the button next to it will open the split view where the design is placed next to the XML code:

ORIGINAL (2013-05-21)

You should have a Design button next to the Text button under the xml text editor:

Or you can use the Preview button in the upper right corner to add a preview window next to the XML code:

UPDATE:

If you dont have it, then do this: View -> Tool Windows -> Preview

Android Studio does not show layout preview(no error occurs also)

     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
     <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
                     xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
                     xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
                     android:layout_width="match_parent"
                     android:layout_height="match_parent"
                     tools:context=".MainActivity">

         <TextView
             android:id="@+id/txt"
             android:layout_width="wrap_content"
             android:layout_height="wrap_content"
             android:text="Hello World!"
             app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
             app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
             app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
             app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />


      <ListView
            android:id="@+id/list"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_below="@+id/txt"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

   </RelativeLayout>

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