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rafaello
rafaello

Reputation: 2435

Can't edit/review layout files in Android Studio

When I double click to open an android layout *.xml file in android studio i get an AssertionError: null in Event Log from Android studio and the layout editor doesn't open.

This doesn't happen in every project, and started to happen in projects there were already working fine, here the log error

null
java.lang.AssertionError
    at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.MultiResourceRepository.setChildren(MultiResourceRepository.java:47)
    at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.MultiResourceRepository.<init>(MultiResourceRepository.java:43)
    at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.ModuleResourceRepository.<init>(ModuleResourceRepository.java:57)
    at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.ModuleResourceRepository.create(ModuleResourceRepository.java:87)
    at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.ProjectResources.create(ProjectResources.java:174)
    at org.jetbrains.android.facet.AndroidFacet.getProjectResources(AndroidFacet.java:996)
    at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.ProjectResources.get(ProjectResources.java:163)
    at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.ProjectResources.get(ProjectResources.java:154)
    at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.ModuleSetResourceRepository.create(ModuleSetResourceRepository.java:43)
    at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.ProjectResources.create(ProjectResources.java:172)
    at org.jetbrains.android.facet.AndroidFacet.getProjectResources(AndroidFacet.java:991)
    at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.ProjectResources.get(ProjectResources.java:163)
    at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.ProjectResources.get(ProjectResources.java:154)
    at com.android.tools.idea.configurations.ConfigurationManager.create(ConfigurationManager.java:120)
    at com.android.tools.idea.configurations.ConfigurationManager.getConfiguration(ConfigurationManager.java:99)
    at org.jetbrains.android.uipreview.AndroidLayoutPreviewToolWindowForm.setFile(AndroidLayoutPreviewToolWindowForm.java:234)
    at org.jetbrains.android.uipreview.AndroidLayoutPreviewToolWindowManager$7.run(AndroidLayoutPreviewToolWindowManager.java:322)
    at com.intellij.util.ui.update.MergingUpdateQueue.execute(MergingUpdateQueue.java:320)
    at com.intellij.util.ui.update.MergingUpdateQueue.execute(MergingUpdateQueue.java:310)
    at com.intellij.util.ui.update.MergingUpdateQueue$2.run(MergingUpdateQueue.java:254)
    at com.intellij.util.ui.UIUtil.invokeLaterIfNeeded(UIUtil.java:2003)
    at com.intellij.util.ui.update.MergingUpdateQueue.flush(MergingUpdateQueue.java:266)
    at com.intellij.util.ui.update.MergingUpdateQueue.flush(MergingUpdateQueue.java:227)
    at com.intellij.util.ui.update.MergingUpdateQueue.run(MergingUpdateQueue.java:217)
    at com.intellij.util.Alarm$Request$1.run(Alarm.java:289)
    at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.LaterInvocator$FlushQueue.run(LaterInvocator.java:347)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:672)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.access$400(EventQueue.java:81)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:633)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:631)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:642)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.defaultDispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:701)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:526)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:349)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)

Now I can't edit/review layout files in Android studio, does anybody knows how to fix this problem?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3769

Answers (2)

yacine
yacine

Reputation: 167

Just delete this line from your activity:

tools:showIn="@layout/activity_splash"

Upvotes: 1

Mukesh
Mukesh

Reputation: 402

Android Studio Issue 124715

Solutions : You do that by editing the "studio.exe.vmoptions" file in this path: Program Files\Android\Android Studio\bin. Remove the line that says "-ea".

You can refer this link

Upvotes: 0

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