Android Studio waiting for build to finish

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M. Reyhani picture M. Reyhani · Apr 9, 2018 · Viewed 45.8k times · Source

I have a problem. When I start a new project in Android Studio and select a navigation drawer activity it happens. I don't have access to my activiy_main_drawer.xml on "Design" and it keeps saying "Waiting for build to finish.". I really don't know what I have to do. I tried to uninstall and reinstall Android Studio, and it didn't help.

Answer

Daniel Le picture Daniel Le · Sep 27, 2018

I've just run into the exact same problem. I simply solved it by choosing Sync Project with Gradle Files. This will trigger a Gradle re-import and a build.

As of Android Studio v3.2, the icon is located near the top right tool bar. You can also find it using Find Action shortcut CtrlShiftA.

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