Android Studio Bumblebee Layout inspector live rendering not working

Question

Layout inspector live inspection stopped working when I upgraded my Android studio to Bumblebee 2021.1.1. Patch 2. It used to work before. It shows "Activity must be hardware accelerated for live inspection" I added hardwareAcceleration to true for my activity. But it didn't help. Did anybody notice this?

Answer 1

I had this problem with Android Studio Electric Eel (Canary) and adding the hardwareAccelerated tag to the manifest didn't work, but adding this to onCreate in the main activity did the trick:

    window.setFlags(
        WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_HARDWARE_ACCELERATED,
        WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_HARDWARE_ACCELERATED
    )