Android XML Preview Unclear After Update to Arctic Fox

Question

After updated to Arctic Fox version, the xml layout previewer looks fuzzy, unclear, see below:

How to fix it?

Hildegaard

Just adjust the zoom? – Lacy

@Lacy That will be very painful. It was clear in previous version. – Hildegaard

I have seen quite a few posts here regarding this, maybe it's an IDE issue as usual. I don't trust the stable updates these days because minute but important things like these break for no reason – Institute

Hi this is related to Android Studio Arctic Fox version. Please see #68587916 – Domoniquedomph

Answer 1

Now the latest version (BumbleBee) fixed this problem.

Hildegaard

Answer 2

It helped me: Help => Edit Custom VM Options => Paste "-Dsun.java2d.uiScale.enabled=false" and restart the IDE.

For more information, click here.

Aubyn

Thanks. A working solution. Should be an accepted answer – Canadianism

Answer 3

Not just XML preview, the Jetpack Compose preview is also very blurry on my Macbook. I tried the old trick Help > Edit custom properties and add:

hidpi=false

But this did not work (maybe it will work on Windows, you can try). Currently I have to revert back to Android Studio 4.2.2 .

Agnate

Answer 4

My issue is resolved when I installed the Oracle Java JDK 11 and then changed the JAVA_HOME directory from JDK1.8_xxx to latest JDK I installed and then I restarted my system

Oxa

Answer 5

I has same issue and i have been used all tricks and method but preview was not showing, at last i used below code and it worked.

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy {
        force 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.6.0'
    }
}

Intersection