Rendering issue in XML preview : Unable to locate

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• Exception raised during rendering: Unable to locate mode 0 6 answers

After updating the android studio exception occured during rendering.

Exception raised during rendering: Unable to locate mode 0

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to locate mode 0
at android.view.DisplayInfo.findMode(DisplayInfo.java:458)
at android.view.DisplayInfo.getMode(DisplayInfo.java:445)
at android.view.Display.getRefreshRate(Display.java:648)
at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.onAttachedToWindow(RecyclerView.java:2392)
at android.view.View.dispatchAttachedToWindow(View.java:15392)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:2953)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:2960)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:2960)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:2960)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:2960)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:2960)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:2960)
at android.view.AttachInfo_Accessor.setAttachInfo(AttachInfo_Accessor.java:42)
at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.impl.RenderSessionImpl.inflate(RenderSessionImpl.java:333)
at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.Bridge.createSession(Bridge.java:429)
at com.android.ide.common.rendering.LayoutLibrary.createSession(LayoutLibrary.java:389)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask$2.compute(RenderTask.java:548)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask$2.compute(RenderTask.java:533)
at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runReadAction(ApplicationImpl.java:966)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask.createRenderSession(RenderTask.java:533)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask.lambda$inflate$53(RenderTask.java:659)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Answer 1

Just change your compileSdkVersion to 24 and downgrade the dependencies:

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.2.1'
compile 'com.android.support:design:24.2.1'
compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:24.2.1'
compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:24.2.1'

That's it.

Answer 2

That's problem with RecyclerView in com.android.support:design:25.0.0

Maybe there is some issue in that version. Changed version to 24.1.1 solved my problem.

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.1.1'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:24.1.1'
compile 'com.android.support:design:24.1.1'

in case you not have not removed the default provided gradle imports change this also

androidTestCompile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:24.2.1'

Answer 3

A Temporary solution is to downgrade your project,

 compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.2.1'
 compile 'com.android.support:design:24.2.1'
 compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:24.2.1'

Answer 4

Either downgrade to v24

OR

The following is neither a solution nor a work around.

If you ONLY want to see the PREVIEW, add app:layoutManager="0" for the recyclerView in a layout XML.

Adding this will throw runtime InflateException. So, please remove that property from XML layout file before running the app.