unexpected token - android studio

Question

I have a problem with my layout text code. Instead of displaying the code I wrote, it shows a bunch of weird symbols like:

"IHDR 0 0 �1

I thought this issue had to do with the file encoding, but I changed the global encoding to UTF-8 and still doesn´t show the code I wrote.

All suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Late answer but it will help others: You need to delete catches folder located in:

C:\Users\user\.AndroidStudio3.5\system\caches

Make sure android studio is closed before you delete, then after deletion you can launch it and it creates a new catch folder that solves your problem,