Android Studio 3 - Constraint layout editor broken

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Benoit picture Benoit · Jun 16, 2017 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

I'm using Android Studio 3.0 (updated to canary 4 today) on macOS for a side project and recently (not sure really when) the constraint layout editor stopped working properly.

Now it just shows a grey window and the blueprint view isn't working at all. Even the properties editor on the right doesn't show the constraints anymore.

Here how it looks for a simple layout with just 1 button:

Android constraint layout editor broken

I'm using constraint layout 1.0.2 but it fails the same way on 1.1.0-beta1.

Any idea what could go wrong? No error are shown in the IDE or in the idea.log

Thanks in advance for any help provided :)

Answer

Nicolas Roard picture Nicolas Roard · Jun 16, 2017

Which gradle version are you using? Also, support lib 26.0.0-beta2 has an issue with studio, if you are using it you should downgrade to beta1 to use the editor.

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