java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.lang.ClassCastException after migrating to androidx in Android Studio - android-studio

Question

I recently migrated my example project to androidx. But, after migration, it causes 'Render Problem' in the preview. The project runs, nevertheless, but it would be helpful to get the preview working again.
As stated in the title, the render problem is caused by "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.lang.ClassCastException
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke". A snippet is provided below.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.lang.ClassCastException#1a8e42ac
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor990.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at android.animation.PropertyValuesHolder_Delegate.callMethod(PropertyValuesHolder_Delegate.java:108)
at android.animation.PropertyValuesHolder_Delegate.nCallFloatMethod(PropertyValuesHolder_Delegate.java:143)
at android.animation.PropertyValuesHolder.nCallFloatMethod(PropertyValuesHolder.java)
at android.animation.PropertyValuesHolder.access$400(PropertyValuesHolder.java:38)
at android.animation.PropertyValuesHolder$FloatPropertyValuesHolder.setAnimatedValue(PropertyValuesHolder.java:1387)
at android.animation.ObjectAnimator.animateValue(ObjectAnimator.java:990)
at android.animation.ValueAnimator.setCurrentFraction(ValueAnimator.java:674)
at android.animation.ValueAnimator.setCurrentPlayTime(ValueAnimator.java:637)
at android.animation.ValueAnimator.start(ValueAnimator.java:1069)
at android.animation.ValueAnimator.start(ValueAnimator.java:1088)
at android.animation.ObjectAnimator.start(ObjectAnimator.java:852)
at android.animation.StateListAnimator.start(StateListAnimator.java:188)
at android.animation.StateListAnimator.setState(StateListAnimator.java:181)
at android.view.View.drawableStateChanged(View.java:21105)
at android.view.ViewGroup.drawableStateChanged(ViewGroup.java:7101)
at com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout.drawableStateChanged(AppBarLayout.java:393)
at android.view.View.refreshDrawableState(View.java:21160)
at android.view.View.dispatchAttachedToWindow(View.java:18379)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3397)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3404)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3404)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchAttachedToWindow(ViewGroup.java:3404)
at android.view.AttachInfo_Accessor.setAttachInfo(AttachInfo_Accessor.java:42)
at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.impl.RenderSessionImpl.inflate(RenderSessionImpl.java:335)
at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.Bridge.createSession(Bridge.java:391)
at com.android.tools.idea.layoutlib.LayoutLibrary.createSession(LayoutLibrary.java:195)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask.createRenderSession(RenderTask.java:540)
at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask.lambda$inflate$5(RenderTask.java:666)
at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$AsyncSupply.run(CompletableFuture.java:1590)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
This is my layout file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<merge>
<androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="56dp"
app:layout_behavior="com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout$ScrollingViewBehavior">
<com.google.android.material.tabs.TabLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="#+id/tabs">
</com.google.android.material.tabs.TabLayout>
</com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>
</androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
</merge>
This is my build.gradle file:
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
android {
compileSdkVersion 28
defaultConfig {
applicationId "com.example.materialdemo"
minSdkVersion 21
targetSdkVersion 28
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
}
buildTypes {
release {
minifyEnabled false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android- optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
}
}
}
dependencies {
implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0-alpha05'
implementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.1.1'
implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.0.0-beta1'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test:runner:1.2.0-beta01'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.2.0-beta01'
implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.1.0-alpha06'
implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout-solver:1.1.3'
implementation 'com.instabug.library:instabug:8.0.15.6-SNAPSHOT'
}
My project level build.gradle file:
// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common
to all sub-projects/modules.
buildscript {
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.4.1'
classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.2.0'
// NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they
belong
// in the individual module build.gradle files
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
maven{
url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots"
}
maven {
url "https://jitpack.io"
}
maven {
url "https://dl.bintray.com/drummer-aidan/maven/"
}
}
}
task clean(type: Delete) {
delete rootProject.buildDir
}

Answer 1

Going back to implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0' and invalidating the caches via File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart... works for me.
Also, any other theme like Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar works great, too.
Edit: I did not know that nearly no feature available in com.google.android.material:material:1.1.0-alpha06 is available in 1.0.0. So this answer is more or less useless.