How I fix NOTHING TO SHOW in my vector asset in android studio

Question

I want to add a new vector asset. I am trying to add a clipArt but it only shows in the dialog box "Nothing to show". No icon is showing and I want to add an icon. I don't know to fix this. Please help. I am still trying to learn android studio and I am practicing on how to use it.

Answer 1

This a new problem introduced in the latest version of Android Studio 4.1. This happens when your windows user name folder contains a space. Rename your user name’s folder removing the space and it will work again.

For some reason the space make the folder where the icons are located not visible to Android Studio.

Answer 2

For myself, my asset dialog only shows some of these icons. And here is my solution.

Go to

[SdkPath]/icons/material

There should be a file called icons_metadata.txt, and folders

• materialicons
• materialiconsoutlined
• materialiconsround
• materialiconssharp
• materialiconstwotone

For each icon, there will be one folder in the folders above. For example, we have materialicons/share, materialiconsoutlined/share and so on.

These icon folders are not complete, only icons starting with digits exist. Since the folder only updated when "Select Icon" dialog is opening, I opened "Select Icon" dialog again, waiting for all icons are downloaded, and then reopen the dialog.

Then my problem is solved.