I didn't even know about this gutter color/drawable preview feature until recently saw it on another computer "turned on" by default...
Anyway, back to my workstation, I try to enable the feature but have no luck.
Basically, for example, when I open colors.xml, my screen looks like this: https://i.sstatic.net/ii3Wn.png
In my settings, I think I have the required options checked to enable gutter preview: https://i.sstatic.net/LbynS.png
So where is my color/drawable preview in gutter? They are not shown both in xml and Java files.
Thanks/BR/Richard
OK, I managed to fix my gutter preview problem!
Basically, I remove all preferences of my installation (I was planning to completely remove and reinstall my copy of Android Studio). I figured something might messed up during number of updates over same copy of installation since very first preview release!
On Mac OSX, I followed the following steps: How to completely uninstall Android Studio?. Note that I had the latest copy of Android Studio already, so I simply just followed those steps to remove all preferences, and ran Android Studio.app again. Android Studio will prompt a Wizard page to step through setups just like it were new installation.
I haven't tried on my work Windows machine yet. A quick search shows steps required to remove Android Studio on Windows completely: Completely remove Android Studio, Eclipse and all the libs/packages installed with them.