Where Is the Layout Preview in Android Studio

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 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 layout preview does not get my current theme

You could assign a default theme in the AndroidManifest.xml, by adding android:theme to the application node. This should also work for library modules, since they have an empty application node, where one can define the default theme for the XML preview.

Android Studio 3.1.4 does not show layout preview

I had the same problem and to resolve it you need to temporally downgrade

compileSdkVersion 28 -> 27
targetSdkVersion 28 -> 27

implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0-alpha3' --> 27.1.1
implementation 'com.android.support:design:28.0.0-alpha3' --> 27.1.1
implementation 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:28.0.0-alpha3' --> 27.1.1

I think there is a problem on those library when Android Studio have to render XML layout.

Alternatively, Google released yesterday Android Studio 3.2.0
Upgrade your IDE, change support libraries with 28.0.0 and everything will work

Android Studio 3.2.1: Layout preview not working for all projects, after loading an old project

I encountered something similar with Android Studio 3.2.1. The project built successfully, no issues, but nothing is displayed on my layout preview view. Tried clean/rebuild, invalidate cache/restart, close/open project, force refresh layout, sync project with gradle files. The only thing that helped me and restored my layout Design preview was to delete caches folder in .AndroidStudio3.2\system.

I cannot find layout preview tab in Android Studio

Layout files in Android Studio have 2 tabs on the bottom: design and text. You should click design.

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