How can I resolve the render problem in the new Android Studio version (Androidx)?

Question

I updated my Android Studio to the latest version and created a new project and added a navigation drawer but the preview is not working correctly for some layouts. There is a render problem shown. I created a new project with Androidx.

I already changed the Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar to Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar and tried to downgrade the API but nothing changed.

Here is the error log I get:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.lang.ClassCastException@682acdca at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at android.animation.PropertyValuesHolder_Delegate.callMethod(PropertyValuesHolder_Delegate.java:108) at android.animation.PropertyValuesHolder_Delegate.nCallFloatMethod(PropertyValuesHolder_Delegate.java:143) at android.animation.PropertyValuesHolder.nCallFloatMethod(PropertyValuesHolder.java:-1) at android.animation.PropertyValuesHolder.access$400(PropertyValuesHolder.java:38) at android.animation.PropertyValuesHolder$FloatPropertyValuesHolder.setAnimatedValue(PropertyValuesHolder.java:1387) at android.animation.ObjectAnimator.animateValue(ObjectAnimator.java:990) at android.animation.ValueAnimator.setCurrentFraction(ValueAnimator.java:674) at android.animation.ValueAnimator.setCurrentPlayTime(ValueAnimator.java:637) at android.animation.ValueAnimator.start(ValueAnimator.java:1069) at android.animation.ValueAnimator.start(ValueAnimator.java:1088) at android.animation.ObjectAnimator.start(ObjectAnimator.java:852) at android.animation.StateListAnimator.start(StateListAnimator.java:188) at android.animation.StateListAnimator.setState(StateListAnimator.java:181) at android.view.View.drawableStateChanged(View.java:21105) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawableStateChanged(ViewGroup.java:7101) at com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout.drawableStateChanged ... (AppBarLayout.java:393) at android.view.View.refreshDrawableState(View.java:21160) at android.view.View.dispatchAttachedToWindow(View.java:18379) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3397) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3404) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3404) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3404) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3404) at android.view.AttachInfo_Accessor.setAttachInfo(AttachInfo_Accessor.java:42)

Answer 1

https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/migrate Go through the above link and follow the procedure. Change the layouts with androidx layouts.

Answer 2

I am facing also same problem. Android Version 3.4.2. Cache clear doesn't solve it. Only fix is close Android Studio and restart it. It happened some times later again.