Android studio 3.4 layout editor doesn't allow to manipulate elements in the designer for the ConstraintLayout

Question

I'm trying to create a layout for my app's activity. I've created the empty activity in my android studio project. The problem is that every time I try to add any UI elements by dragging them onto the activity, they are moved to the top-left corner and resized to zero height and width. After that it is not possible to manipulate them in any meaningful way. What am I missing?

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I'm using android studio 3.4, I've tried different types of UI elements, tried restarting the android studio.

Answer 1

Try to update your android studio and add this to your Gradle:

 implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3' 

May constraint layout not implemented on your project.