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Android Implementing Designs for Android Customizing the Login Screen Adding the Login Background Image

Kevin Lavi
Kevin Lavi
3,311 Points
Posted by Kevin Lavi
Kevin Lavi
3,311 Points

ImageView not working in xml file (in preview, works fine in app) (android studio)

Any time I add an image with imageview it works find within the app but I can't do anything with it in the preview/design mode in Android Studio. For example instead of showing the purple ribbit design it just shows the blank plain white background. It makes it frustrating working on this project.

I actually get error's with this also, which is odd because it works perfectly fine when it runs on the emulator:

Rendering Problems Couldn't resolve resource @drawable/background_fill (3 similar errors not shown) Failed to convert @drawable/background_fill into a drawable (2 similar errors not shown)

1 Answer

Jaroslav Vankat
Jaroslav Vankat
12,054 Points
Jaroslav Vankat
Jaroslav Vankat
12,054 Points

Probably too late but I had a similar problem, just lower the API in the preview (I chose API 19) and it should work fine (more info here http://thodorisbais.blogspot.de/2014/07/how-to-solve-exception-raised-during.html). But it's possible you have a different problem.