No Navigation Editor - Android Studio Canary 15 and 16

Question

I'm racking my brains over this. I'm trying to refactor my app to use the new Navigation Architecture Component in Android Studio Canary 15, all I get when creating the xml file is the following message, the editor never shows up;

I have already uninstalled and re-installed both my installation of Android Studio and Android Studio Canary 15 (residing in both C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio and C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio Canary and all related components in the C:\Users\[username]\.AndroidStudio folders.

Any ideas why this isn't working?

EDIT: Ok so there is now an error message, when I disable the Android Support Plugin I get a few more error messages telling me to re-enable plugins!

EDIT 2: I updated to Canary 16 and the issue still remains.

26/05/2018
18:22   Plugin Error
            Problems found loading plugins:
            Plugin "Android Games" was not loaded: required plugin "Android Support" is disabled.
            Plugin "Android NDK Support" was not loaded: required plugin "Android Support" is disabled.
            Plugin "Android APK Support" was not loaded: required plugin "Android Support" is disabled.
            Plugin "Google Developers Samples" was not loaded: required plugin "Android Support" is disabled.
            Plugin "Google Cloud Tools For Android Studio" was not loaded: required plugin "Android Support" is disabled.
            Plugin "Test Recorder" was not loaded: required plugin "Android Support" is disabled.
            Plugin "Firebase Testing" was not loaded: required plugin "Android Support" is disabled.
            Plugin "Google Services" was not loaded: required plugin "Android Support" is disabled.
            Plugin "Firebase Services" was not loaded: required plugin "Android Support" is disabled.
            Plugin "App Links Assistant" was not loaded: required plugin "Android Support" is disabled.
            Plugin "Fire... (show balloon)

18:23   Error Loading Project: Cannot load 3 facets Details...

18:23   Plugins Suggestion
            Plugin supporting features (Run Configuration[Android App], Facet[android, android-gradle]) is currently disabled.
            Enable plugins...
            Ignore Unknown Features

null
java.lang.IllegalStateException
    at com.android.tools.idea.naveditor.scene.decorator.NavSceneDecoratorFactory.<init>(NavSceneDecoratorFactory.kt:39)
    at com.android.tools.idea.naveditor.scene.NavSceneManager.getSceneDecoratorFactory(NavSceneManager.java:510)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.scene.SceneComponent.<init>(SceneComponent.java:116)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.scene.SceneManager.createHierarchy(SceneManager.java:164)
    at com.android.tools.idea.naveditor.scene.NavSceneManager.createHierarchy(NavSceneManager.java:265)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.scene.SceneManager.update(SceneManager.java:121)
    at com.android.tools.idea.naveditor.scene.NavSceneManager.requestRender(NavSceneManager.java:340)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.surface.DesignSurface.requestRender(DesignSurface.java:1291)
    at com.android.tools.idea.naveditor.surface.NavDesignSurface.layoutContent(NavDesignSurface.java:227)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.surface.DesignSurface.setScale(DesignSurface.java:730)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.surface.DesignSurface.setScale(DesignSurface.java:683)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.surface.DesignSurface.zoom(DesignSurface.java:571)
    at com.android.tools.idea.naveditor.surface.NavDesignSurface.zoom(NavDesignSurface.java:402)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.surface.DesignSurface.zoom(DesignSurface.java:513)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.surface.DesignSurface.zoomToFit(DesignSurface.java:631)
    at com.android.tools.idea.naveditor.surface.NavDesignSurface.refreshRoot(NavDesignSurface.java:521)
    at com.android.tools.idea.naveditor.surface.NavDesignSurface.getCurrentNavigation(NavDesignSurface.java:233)
    at com.android.tools.idea.naveditor.scene.NavSceneManager.getRoot(NavSceneManager.java:241)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.scene.SceneManager.update(SceneManager.java:115)
    at com.android.tools.idea.naveditor.scene.NavSceneManager.requestRender(NavSceneManager.java:340)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.surface.DesignSurface.requestRender(DesignSurface.java:1291)
    at com.android.tools.idea.naveditor.surface.NavDesignSurface.layoutContent(NavDesignSurface.java:227)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.surface.DesignSurface.addModel(DesignSurface.java:310)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.surface.DesignSurface.setModel(DesignSurface.java:368)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.editor.NlEditorPanel.initNeleModelOnEventDispatchThread(NlEditorPanel.java:162)
    at com.android.tools.idea.common.editor.NlEditorPanel.lambda$null$4(NlEditorPanel.java:149)
    at com.intellij.openapi.project.DumbServiceImpl.lambda$smartInvokeLater$7(DumbServiceImpl.java:430)
    at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl$2.run(TransactionGuardImpl.java:315)
    at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.LaterInvocator$FlushQueue.doRun(LaterInvocator.java:447)
    at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.LaterInvocator$FlushQueue.runNextEvent(LaterInvocator.java:431)
    at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.LaterInvocator$FlushQueue.run(LaterInvocator.java:415)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:311)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:762)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:98)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:715)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:732)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.defaultDispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:779)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:720)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:395)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)

Edit 3: My navigation graph 'main_graph.xml' is below;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<navigation xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
</navigation>

try to File->Invalidate Caches/ Restart and give us the output of android studio — Paraskevas Ntsounos, May 30 '18 at 13:42

Levi Moreira · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-02T23:58:46.843

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You have the test helper dependence, try removing it. There's an issue with it and the navigation editor

androidTestImplementation "android.arch.navigation:navigation-testing:$nav_version"

Then hit restart and clean cache.

edited Jun 02 '18 at 23:58

answered Jun 02 '18 at 18:28

Levi Moreira

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Worked for me as well! – Mitchell Skaggs Jun 04 '18 at 18:34

Paraskevas Ntsounos · Answer 2 · 2018-05-30T13:39:49.587

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Go to IDE Settings and just disable and enable Android Support plugin like below:

Windows (and Linux): Go to File---> Settings---> Plugins ---> Enable Android Support
Mac: Android Studio---> Preferences---> Plugins ---> Enable Android Support

edited May 30 '18 at 13:39

answered May 30 '18 at 12:39

Paraskevas Ntsounos

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Hi I have tried this (mentioned in question) and get errors saying to re-enable the plugin. Disabling and re-enabling does not fix the issue. – omegaFlame May 30 '18 at 12:44
ok, have you tried this too? https://stackoverflow.com/a/48083794/6176003 – Paraskevas Ntsounos May 30 '18 at 12:45
Thanks for the link. I have just tried all the mentioned solutions and still getting the error. – omegaFlame May 30 '18 at 13:05
@omegaFlame so your plugin screen is exactly like the photo? make sure again that you show All plugins and those with android support is enabled. – Paraskevas Ntsounos May 30 '18 at 13:17
Not exactly, I have more plugins than that and all Android Support plugins are enabled. – omegaFlame May 30 '18 at 13:27
@omegaFlame I found one other way too, go to File -> Settings -> Plugins and unselect red items, restart Android Studio, select "Android Support" and restart. I hope this work. – Paraskevas Ntsounos May 30 '18 at 14:20
They did not appear red until i disabled Android Support. I then disabled all red items and restarted. Then I enabled Android Support again and restarted and still getting the error. Plus now in 'Logcat' it says "Please configure Android SDK" – omegaFlame May 30 '18 at 14:29
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/172086/discussion-between-paraskevas-ntsounos-and-omegaflame). – Paraskevas Ntsounos May 30 '18 at 14:34

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 12 '18 at 12:39

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Posting, because I can not add comment(reputation). @Levi Moreira it's good starting point for me, but I had to remove some additional files. In my case it was :

-.idea/cashes - folder in project

-libraries/ - all navigation libraries

and start Android Studio.

answered Jul 12 '18 at 12:39

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Welcome to SO. As you write, this isn't an answer; you should really wait until you have sufficient reputation to make comments. – Nick Jul 12 '18 at 13:09
What do you mean by saying that this is not the answer? This solution worked for me and helped me solve the problem. I just wanted to share it with others – human Jul 13 '18 at 11:41

No Navigation Editor - Android Studio Canary 15 and 16

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