Unlike shown in Introduction to the Layout Editor, my preview window is missing Component Tree and Attributes view:
Where can I enable those?
You are not looking for preview, but design view! Enable it by clicking "Design" button on bottom left of main window.
(I asked and answered this question because I spent half an hour trying to fix what wasn't broken! I even reinstalled Android Studio, only to find out later that I was in the wrong view -- and I don't want others to make the same stupid mistake.)
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As you can see in the image below, every time I open a project in Android Studio, the layout decorations option is deselected. How can I have it selected for default?
look on the top left of constraintLayout that you currently open, click on the eye icon and then click Show Layout Decorations. then you will be able to see it. but i don't know how to access it.
I think is not possible. I never see about that the solution
I upgraded my Android Studio and then look has changed. I can no longer see the "Phone View".
This is what I see
And this is what I was seeing (Notice the Blue Bar or the phone interface on the left)
I searched google for Android Studio Design Structures and other terms. I also wen through their tutorails but I coudn't figure it out. been at it for couple of hours now. Hope I am not missing something very simple?
In the UI you have a dropdown with an eye icon for some viewing options. In that dropdown you should enable Show Layout Decorations.
When I first started using AS I really liked the edit layout feature. I like the way it shows you a preview on the right of the screen when you are editing the XML.
This seems to have disappeared - how do I turn it back on? It's not a show stopper, but it was a nice feature.
The previewer is way better than the clunky Eclipse one.
There should be a tab called "Preview" on the right side of the screen.
If you can't see this then click the little square on the bottom left of the screen and it will appear.
I was moving stuff around to get it to work in iOS 7, then the machine crashed (not unusual with a new Xcode installation). Now the subviews don't have their positioning constraints any more. Is there a way to get them back? Don't care if it's just the default constraints, right now elements are all over the place. If not, is there a way to get everything into auto layout? Some elements appear to be spring and strut aligned, others are auto layout. Probably the crash messed it up.
At the bottom of the main edit window is a toolbar with something that looks like a tie fighter.
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Click that, then in the menu, select "Reset to Suggested Constraints".
Has the browser window been removed from the latest version of Xcode? I've seen this window in an iOS class I watched online and again in a book I have. I can't find anything in the View menu to turn it on.
I'm running Lion and the latest version of Xcode. I created a new project with Core Data turned on and then built it. I then clicked on .xcdatamodeld file and I get a graphic window with the default table in it.
Do you mean the project browser on the left? You enable that using the 'view' buttons on the right side of the toolbar.
The toolbar might be hidden though, so go to the view menu and select "Show toolbar" if needed.
Then select the fourth button from the right on the toolbar, it is the first button in the set of view buttons. This shows the Navigator View on the left of your screen, which has 7 selectors on the top. The leftmost will give you the project browser (project navigator), the one next to it is the symbol navigator.
I hate to be answering my own question again. I like to keep my answer rate at 100%. Since I didn't get a response here, I tried the Apple developer forums. It turn out the Xcode 4.* changed the interface and this series of windows no longer exist. The same functions can be found in other locations.