Android Studio waiting for build to finish

Question

I have a problem. When I start a new project in Android Studio and select a navigation drawer activity it happens. I don\'t have access to my activiy_main_drawer.xml

Answer 1

Ah... I resolved it with the help on this page and a little bit more effort.

I installed Android Studio v.3.3.1 today on my Zenbook. I was stuck with the same error "waiting for a build to finish" and Display tab was not showing up for activity_main.xml Here is what I did to resolve this error.

Step 1. I searched for SDK tools and downloaded required SDK versions.

Step 2. downloaded Gradle 5.2.1 and extracted the files in Program Files\Android\Android Studio\gradle

Step 3. File>Settings>Build..>Gradle and choose the local distribution of Gradle 5.2.1

Step 4. Go to File>Sync Project with Gradle files and allow some time to sync...

finish() :) developing android with Kotlin

Answer 2

Stuck w/ the issue for a month, got it after AndroidX update. Tried to invalidate caches, manually remove them (project, grade, studio), re-install studio, re-import project - nothing helped.

This script resolved it finally (w/ -nuke option)

https://github.com/rock3r/deep-clean

Answer 3

My experience: I was accidentally importing "myself" into the view, creating infinite loop:

item_task.xml

<androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
    ...
    tools:itemCount="3"
    tools:listitem="@layout/item_task" />   <---- circular dependency mistake

Setting a correct list item in the recycler view solved the issue.

Answer 4

I uninstalled my 3.1.2 and installed version 3.2 Canary 18 from Android Studio download archives. Everything is fine now.

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Answer 5

Syncing gradle, reopening, rebuilding, invalidating caches and restarting, trying different Android studio versions. None of these helped. When I would open XML preview I would still see that damn issue.

What helped in the end is closing Android studio, going to gradle directory:

cd ~/.gradle/

And deleting caches folder:

rm -rf caches

After that reopening Android studio will take some time as it still has some rebuilding to do, but afterwards all xml layouts were being properly rendered again.

Answer 6

File -> Sync project with Gradle files