Rendering Problems Exception raised during rendering: com.android.ide.common.rendering.api.LayoutlibCallback

Question

I encountered a problem when creating a project in Android Studio. (Version 1.5.1)

I describe my actions step-by-step:

• Open Android Studio.
• Cr

Answer 1

I had a similar problem with Android Studio 1.5.1 in Windows 10. The preview was not working no matter what version of Android was selected. The stacktrace starts with:

"java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.android.ide.common.rendering.api.LayoutlibCallback.getXmlFileParser(Ljava/lang/String;)Lorg/xmlpull/v1/XmlPullParser;"

When I remove the attribute tools:showIn="@layout/activity_main" from the RelativeLayout the problem resolves for all Android versions except "N". I have Android 2.2, 2.3.3, 5.0.1 and 6.0 enabled

I can't explain why the action resolves the problem though or why it does work for version N.