Intellij IDEA Ultimate android layout preview not working waiting for build finish

Question

IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2.5 (Ultimate Edition) Build #IU-182.4892.20, built on October 16, 2018 Licensed to IntelliJ IDEA Evaluator Expiration date: November 27, 2018 JRE: 1.8.0_152-release-1248-b19 x86_64 JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o macOS 10.13.6

I tried several ways.

• Refresh all gradle projects (in the right and top pannel)
• clean and rebuild
• invalidate and restart the IDEA

But it does not work.

And I noticed that:

• Android Studio alone: work
• IDEA alone: work
• Android Studio and IDEA both running: none of them work

I could build and run the project successfully but how to fix this?

Answer 1

Try to change the options from Nexus 4/version/Theme in the intellij.

Answer 2

I simply solved it by choosing Sync Project with Gradle Files. This will trigger a Gradle re-import and a build.

One can find it using Find Action shortcut Ctrl + Shift + A and choose "Sync project With Gradle Files"