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I have downloaded the new android studio that has been released recently. I am unable to find the UI design preview for the xml, as it is in eclipse. Any help or suggestions on that?
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Open your gradle. properties file in Android Studio. Restart Android Studio for your changes to take effect. Click Sync Project with Gradle Files to sync your project.
Open an existing layout in Android Studio, and click the Design button in the top-right corner of the editor window. In the Component Tree, right-click the layout, and then click Convert your-layout-type to ConstraintLayout.
Navigate to file -> Project structure -> modules -> click on green plus button to add a module. Now you will be able to see the full project structure; then open the module form project window (the left panel), select res then select layout -> your layout name(. xml).
Open a xml layout file:
You can also show/hide it with View > Tool Windows > Preview
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Attention: the IDE only displays the preview if editing a layout file in the res/layout* directory of an Android project. In particular, it won't be displayed if editing a file in build/res/layout* since those are not source directory but output directory.
The Resource folder is set automatically, and can be viewed (and changed) in Project Structure > Modules > [Module name] > Android > Resources directory.
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