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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Creating the Screen Layout Editing a Layout File

Posted by Bharath J
Bharath J
343 Points

the Design tab is showing some error. Cannot see the model of the mobile there.What do i do ?

I was not able to view Emulator also. So am using Genymotion now. Please help.

Bharath J
Bharath J
343 Points

this is the error shown:

Rendering Problems The following classes could not be instantiated: - android.support.v7.internal.widget.ActionBarOverlayLayout (Open Class, Show Exception, Clear Cache) Tip: Use View.isInEditMode() in your custom views to skip code or show sample data when shown in the IDE Exception Details java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: android.support.v4.view.ViewPropertyAnimatorListener Copy stack to clipboard

1 Answer

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points
James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

Hello,

According to this stackoverflow posting, you can fix this by redefining your theme in res/values/styles.xml to have "Base." prepended to it. So that would look close to

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Base.Theme.FILL_IN_WITH_YOUR_THEME_INFO">
    <!-- could be stuff here -->
</style>

Please let us know if this helps and/or if you need more assistance.

Jeffrey Dickerson
Jeffrey Dickerson
4,920 Points

Thank you James!

I had this same issue and the only thing I had to do was to add 'Base' before the .Theme in the file you mentioned.