In the process of learning, I want to find pieces of code that I wrote in other projects for reuse in the current project.
How can I find a line in all projects of the working directory (where all my projects are located) even if these projects are not currently open from Android Studio.
I could not find such a feature in the studio itself and in plugins
I don't know if there is a plugin that solve you problem but you can use for sure grep on terminal to search for a string in all files in an entire directory
Example:
grep -R "val page" .
IMHO is not comfortable but it can be useful in extreme cases.
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I have two android projects. One is the login and membership screen and the other is my main project. I did both separately, in case it would be okay to combine them later, but I realized that I made a big mistake. When I tried to combine the two, it started giving errors all the time and I couldn't do it. Gradle files were probably missing, but I'm very confused. Can anyone help me how to do it easily?
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There is currently no easy option to "combine" two projects like to merge them without exceptions. But you can do the following:
The easiest way to combine two projects is to take the smaller project and copy all the files in /java /layout /drawable to the other project.
Then I would look up all files in /values and copy the values if you changed them.
After that you should look at the Mainfest and see wether you made changes there and transfer them. This will make most of the errors not come up because you just copied all the classes.
If you get the error anyway then go to your gradle files (build.gradle for project and module and settings.gradle if you use android studio bumblebee or newer) and check if there is any plugin or line you have in one project and not in the other and then add that accordingly.
I have a couple Android Studio projects that are similar, and I want to know exactly where their source files differ. What is an easy way to do that?
Right click file/directory/project/module > click compare with > give the path to compare
EASY WAY TO FIND PATH : ( considering both projects are open in Android Studio)
Switch to project you want to compare > right click file/directory/project/module > copy path > paste it back in select path dialog.
BETTER to copy path first.
Verified : Android Studio 1.5.1
In Android studio 3.4.2 you can do by right click on
Select Android : app → Compare Directories select proper path for your files and done.
In Android Studio Bumblebee : app → Compare With or Ctrl+D :)
I'm highly recommend Compare Directories Plugin for Android Studio 2+.
Allows the fast comparison of two directories or archive files (jar,
zip, war... and also tar/gz) based on file contents. Compared
directories/archives are shown in a tree view to give a better and
easier-to-read overall view of the differences.
Installation:
Open: File > Settings > Plugins
Click on the button “Browse repositories”, find the “Compare Directories” plugin in the available plugins list, right click on it and choose install.
General usage instructions:
Execute the Compare Directories... menu command, select two directories or zip/jar/tar files containing files with the same file names and see the comparison results on the opened Compare Directories panel:
Files and directories are shown depending on the differences in their
contents: identical, different by blanks only, non-significantly
different, different, left-only, right-only.
Compared text file can be then edited within IDEA.
Compared text file differences can be then viewed with the usual IDEA diff window.
Compared class bytecode differences can be also viewed with the usual IDEA diff window.
Files and directories can be copied from one side to the other.
You will find many more details in the plugin page:
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/113-compare-directories
Following some links here I tried to rename a project. I went to c:\path\to\AndroidStudioProject and renamed the folder there, then found the .idea file and changed that. Now the project loads but java files are missing! However, on clicking java (in the bar at the top), then com I can see them each with a small red j.
I then looked in module Gradle build where there were 3 files, one with the new name and 2 older ones which stated that they did not belong so I deleted them, copying the compile info into the new one. Naturally on doing a Sync Now I get a bunch of errors.
Why does this have to be such a complex operation? Can anyone assist?
After you rename the folder, open the project in Android Studio. From there, right click something that needs to be renamed (e.g., module, package names, etc.) and use Refactor->Rename from the context menu. Keep doing this until everything that can be refactored is.
You will need to manually change the value of applicationId in the app-level build.gradle. Obviously, things like #string/app_name will also have to be changed manually. I recommend making these manual adjustments from inside Android Studio rather than directly editing the files. That way you'll know immediately if you break something.
I have got thousands of files/folders inside a solution. For some reason I have to exclude them all and then include again in the project, to get the latest list of files.
The normal "Exclude From Project" in visual studio menu takes too much time. Is there a quick way to do it?
Thanks!
Put them all into one master folder and include that folder.
If some are files, you may also want to compile them and include the DLLs or the equivalent in whatever language you're using.
While performing Find and Replace operations in Visual Studio 2012; using the Find in Files/Replace in Files dialog window, setting the "Look in" scope to "Entire Solution", and using Regular Expressions on all file types, Visual Studio is busy searching the WHOLE HARD DRIVE! Some of my searches take a very long time and when I look at the Visual Studio Status Bar, it shows the currently searched directory/file is something well outside of the solution folders - sometimes it is even searching the C:\Windows\System32 directory or similarly irrelevant locations.
Has anyone else seen this behavior? More importantly, does anyone have a solution to fix it, so my search and replace operations stick to the solution files and don't waste time searching the other million files on the computer?
I've not had it searching the whole drive, but I have had it return matches from files outside my project (this in VS 2010). In my case deleting the .suo file appeared to fix this issue.
My suspicion is that the files being searched are files I stepped into during a debugging session (or more accurately stepped out of my code into the calling code). Somehow these files are remembered and included in searches.
This wouldn't explain a full drive search, but could explain my "out of solution" results
I was having a similar problem with Visual Studio 2013 with Update 4 installed - in my case I was getting search results from files that had been in the Miscellaneous Files 'Project', even after removing them from Miscellaneous Files.
Deleting the .suo file from the solution directory solved the problem; however, doing so causes VS to forget which files you had open in the solution (and probably some other things).
Still occurring in Visual Studio Enterprise 2017, Version 15.8.6.
Deleting the .suo file (found in .\.vs\YourSolutionName\v15\) and rebuilding the solution fixed the issue.
I suspect it's known directory/targeted directory to search was being cached there because the Find Results would show up very quickly. Indicative of it not searching the "whole hard drive", or even my whole mapped workspace "Local Folder". Typically if I am performing a search on even a more parent branch in source control, it will take close to a minute.
For me the solution was to move the file .sln into the solution directory.