When I am trying to add a TextView in layout xml, the rendering of views does not occur and the design tab becomes empty.
This is the stacktrace shown in Studio
Render problem
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:568) at android.view.BridgeInflater.lambda$createViewFromCustomInflater$0(BridgeInflater.java:268) at android.view.BridgeInflater.createViewFromCustomInflater(BridgeInflater.java:294) at android.view.BridgeInflater.onCreateView(BridgeInflater.java:131) at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:934) at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:954) at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:1008) at android.view.BridgeInflater.createViewFromTag(BridgeInflater.java:318) at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:965) at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate_Original(LayoutInflater.java:1127) at android.view.LayoutInflater_Delegate.rInflate(LayoutInflater_Delegate.java:72) at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:1101) at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflateChildren(LayoutInflater.java:1088) at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:686) at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:505) at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.impl.RenderSessionImpl.inflate(RenderSessionImpl.java:358) at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.Bridge.createSession(Bridge.java:450) at com.android.tools.idea.layoutlib.LayoutLibrary.createSession(LayoutLibrary.java:122) at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask.createRenderSession(RenderTask.java:701) at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask.lambda$inflate$8(RenderTask.java:848) at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderExecutor$runAsyncActionWithTimeout$3.run(RenderExecutor.kt:200) at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderExecutor$PriorityRunnable.run(RenderExecutor.kt:298) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.io.InputStream.available()" because "assetStream" is null at android.graphics.fonts.Font_Builder_Delegate.createBuffer(Font_Builder_Delegate.java:52) at android.graphics.fonts.Font$Builder.createBuffer(Font.java:264) at android.graphics.fonts.Font$Builder.(Font.java:200) at android.graphics.Typeface$Builder.(Typeface.java:517) at android.graphics.Typeface_Delegate.createFromDisk(Typeface_Delegate.java:91) at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.impl.ResourceHelper.getFont(ResourceHelper.java:495) at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.impl.ResourceHelper.getFont(ResourceHelper.java:507) at android.content.res.BridgeTypedArray.getFont(BridgeTypedArray.java:723) at android.widget.TextView.readTextAppearance(TextView.java:4154) at android.widget.TextView.(TextView.java:1165) at android.widget.TextView.(TextView.java:1066) at androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatTextView.(AppCompatTextView.java:113) at com.google.android.material.textview.MaterialTextView.(MaterialTextView.java:92) at com.google.android.material.textview.MaterialTextView.(MaterialTextView.java:87) at com.google.android.material.theme.MaterialComponentsViewInflater.createTextView(MaterialComponentsViewInflater.java:61) at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatViewInflater.createView(AppCompatViewInflater.java:148) ... 28 more
I have tried updating Studio to latest version, still it did not solve it.
Details of AS
Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 Patch 2 Build #AI-231.9392.1.2311.11330709, built on January 19, 2024
Runtime version: 17.0.7+0-b2043.56-10550314 amd64 VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
