title: Android Studio 3.6.1, Layout Design View not showing
body: <p>Since Android Studio v3.6.1, I can no longer preview my xml layout files. I get <code>"Waiting for build to finish"</code> forever.</p>
  
  <p>I found this post, which seems related, but the answers there didn't help. 
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53347480/android-studio-layout-design-view-not-loading">Android studio layout Design view not loading</a></p>
  
  <p>As I was suspecting a style/theme related problem, I opened up at least 10 of my older apps. Unfortunately they all showed the same behaviour.</p>
  
  <p>Here's a small screen shot - all my layout files look like this:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iiKrz.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iiKrz.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>