Cannot drag and drop views in the Designer UI layout

[brand7noronha]

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Issue explanation

When I go to the "activity_main.xml" and open the preview mode, and when I drag and drop the widgets onto the layout, it doesn't get added at all! I don't know how to fix it please help 😭

Expected behavior

Version name

I am currently using the Android-IDE version 2.6.1-beta

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[brand7noronha]

I figured out why the preview mode doesn't work (i.e., I can't drag and drop the UI elements)! It's because maybe I have used Constraint Layout as the parent layout, and not Linear Layout!

Because when I tried Linear Layout as the parent, the preview mode worked fine! And I was able to drag and drop the UI elements correctly!😃

I think and also make a humble request to the developers of Android IDE that they must make the preview mode work for constraint layout and Jetpack Compose in it's future update! As it's really creating a problem when I want to just preview the app without building and running, specifically for constraint layout and Jetpack Compose projects.