नमस्ते
While creating a new android project using Android Studio I came across a Rendering error when I try to open the ‘Design tab’ on any layout xml file.
Solution:
Open up the styles.xml file. It would be under res/values/ folder in your app directory.
Change the following line
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
to
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
Here, we have added Base as the superclass for this particular theme as defined in the values.xml under the build/ directory.
<style name="Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar" parent="Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light">
Other Solutions:
1. Change the theme by selecting the ‘Design’ tab of your layout xml. Then click on App Theme and select the appropriate theme you want.
2. Modify the styles.xml file as following and select the appropriate API level.
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar"></style>
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