Preview missing in layout editor

[lamba92]

Is it common?
That's the error of the layout editor:

java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.Context cannot be cast to android.app.Activity
	at com.pchmn.materialchips.ChipsInput.init(ChipsInput.java:147)
	at com.pchmn.materialchips.ChipsInput.<init>(ChipsInput.java:79)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
	at org.jetbrains.android.uipreview.ViewLoader.createNewInstance(ViewLoader.java:481)
	at org.jetbrains.android.uipreview.ViewLoader.loadClass(ViewLoader.java:264)
	at org.jetbrains.android.uipreview.ViewLoader.loadView(ViewLoader.java:222)
	at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.LayoutlibCallbackImpl.loadView(LayoutlibCallbackImpl.java:209)
	at android.view.BridgeInflater.loadCustomView(BridgeInflater.java:337)
	at android.view.BridgeInflater.loadCustomView(BridgeInflater.java:348)
	at android.view.BridgeInflater.createViewFromTag(BridgeInflater.java:248)
	at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:730)
	at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate_Original(LayoutInflater.java:863)
	at android.view.LayoutInflater_Delegate.rInflate(LayoutInflater_Delegate.java:72)
	at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:837)
	at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflateChildren(LayoutInflater.java:824)
	at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:515)
	at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:394)
	at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.impl.RenderSessionImpl.inflate(RenderSessionImpl.java:325)
	at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.Bridge.createSession(Bridge.java:384)
	at com.android.tools.idea.layoutlib.LayoutLibrary.createSession(LayoutLibrary.java:193)
	at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask.createRenderSession(RenderTask.java:544)
	at com.android.tools.idea.rendering.RenderTask.lambda$inflate$3(RenderTask.java:678)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

[alyyasser]

i have this issue too, any workaround?