Why is Android Studio not showing possible properties of a widget? - android-studio

In a couple of resource with Android Studio I have seen people typing a widget's name and after closing the parenthesis a list of possible properties was appearing appear above the widet as show in the screenshot. However, I am not getting this displayed. Can someone shine some light on what needs to be set in order see this list?
how it is supposed to look
Many thanks!

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