title: IDE Error Android Studio 3.1.2 "Waiting for build to finish
body: <p>Hello Stack i receive the following error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>null
        java.lang.NullPointerException
          at com.android.tools.idea.uibuilder.scene.LayoutlibSceneManager.getRenderResult(LayoutlibSceneManager.java:602)
          at com.android.tools.idea.uibuilder.surface.ScreenViewBase.getResult(ScreenViewBase.java:109)
          at com.android.tools.idea.uibuilder.surface.ScreenView.getResult(ScreenView.java:30)
          at com.android.tools.idea.uibuilder.menu.NavigationViewSceneView.getPreferredSize(NavigationViewSceneView.java:64)
          at com.android.tools.idea.common.surface.SceneView.getPreferredSize(SceneView.java:95)
          at com.android.tools.idea.uibuilder.scene.LayoutlibSceneManager.createSceneViewsForMenu(LayoutlibSceneManager.java:265)
          at com.android.tools.idea.uibuilder.scene.LayoutlibSceneManager.doCreateSceneView(LayoutlibSceneManager.java:234)
          at com.android.tools.idea.common.scene.SceneManager.createSceneView(SceneManager.java:73)
          at com.android.tools.idea.common.scene.SceneManager.(SceneManager.java:66)
          at com.android.tools.idea.uibuilder.scene.LayoutlibSceneManager.(LayoutlibSceneManager.java:157)
          at com.android.tools.idea.uibuilder.surface.NlDesignSurface.createSceneManager(NlDesignSurface.java:145)
          at com.android.tools.idea.common.surface.DesignSurface.setModel(DesignSurface.java:281)
          at com.android.tools.idea.common.editor.NlEditorPanel.initNeleModelOnEventDispatchThread(NlEditorPanel.java:143)
          at com.android.tools.idea.common.editor.NlEditorPanel.lambda$null$4(NlEditorPanel.java:139)
          at com.intellij.openapi.project.DumbServiceImpl.lambda$smartInvokeLater$7(DumbServiceImpl.java:366)
          at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl$2.run(TransactionGuardImpl.java:315)
          at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.LaterInvocator$FlushQueue.runNextEvent(LaterInvocator.java:424)
          at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.LaterInvocator$FlushQueue.run(LaterInvocator.java:407)
          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:822)
          at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:650)
          at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:366)
          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)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I use the following view</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
      tools:showIn="navigation_view"&gt;
  
      &lt;group android:checkableBehavior="single"&gt;
          &lt;item
              android:id="@+id/nav_home"
              android:icon="@drawable/ic_home_black_24dp"
              android:title="Hoofdmenu" /&gt;
          &lt;item
              android:id="@+id/nav_logout"
              android:icon="@drawable/ic_close_black_24dp"
              android:title="Uitloggen" /&gt;
          &lt;item
              android:id="@+id/nav_gallery"
              android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_gallery"
              android:title="Gallery"
              android:visible="false" /&gt;
          &lt;item
              android:id="@+id/nav_slideshow"
              android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_slideshow"
              android:title="Slideshow"
              android:visible="false" /&gt;
          &lt;item
              android:id="@+id/nav_manage"
              android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_manage"
              android:title="Tools"
              android:visible="false" /&gt;
      &lt;/group&gt;
  
      &lt;item
          android:title="Communicate"
          android:visible="false"&gt;
          &lt;menu&gt;
              &lt;item
                  android:id="@+id/nav_share"
                  android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_share"
                  android:title="Share" /&gt;
              &lt;item
                  android:id="@+id/nav_send"
                  android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_send"
                  android:title="Send" /&gt;
          &lt;/menu&gt;
      &lt;/item&gt;
  
  &lt;/menu&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After updating my IDE to 3.1.2 i now receive this error on my main_drawer activity</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong>
  Apparently the line</p>
  
  <pre><code>tools:showIn="navigation_view"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Crashes the preview</p>