Design view of Android studio is empty

I created a new project, and the design view is empty, anything I dragged into activity_main.xml is not visible.

activity_main.xml

3 Answers
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Please Fallow these steps

1- Go to your res folder and inside res folder.
2-Go to values.
3-Go to style.xml
4-change <!-- Base application theme. -->
<stylename="AppTheme"parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
to <stylename="AppTheme"parent="Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">


According to CoordinatorLayout is not visible in Design view, change versions of all android libraries to 28.0.0-alpha1:

28.0.0-alpha1

implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0-alpha1'


I used to have a similar problem. Changing to a lower version of appcompat has solved this for me.

Go to build.gradle, under dependencies change

implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0-alpha3'


to

implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0-alpha1'


Then make sure to sync the project again. Good luck and happy coding.

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