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.
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Is there a way to hide icons highlighted below in Android Studio? Also, is there a way to set layout Design view zoom to a specific value, say 25% by default. I did search the forum as usual but couldn't find specific answers. If there are already, would appreciate the link. Thank you.
Please note the second part of the image is rotated left by 90 degrees to minimize space. Android Studio 3.6.1 on Windows 7 Ultimate.
PS: I did try distraction free mode, even then some of these icons wouldn't go away.
Raised an enhancement request with Google, apparently they thought well of it. Seems its fixed per the tracker here. Hopefully it will roll out in next release.
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.)
I've looked at the suggested answers and none of them get the layout preview to render properly. I have tried changing the theme and lowering the API.
With "AppTheme" selected as the theme, the layout preview does not render elements properly and does not match the emulator. The error messages, .xml, emulator and layout preview are shown in the screenshot.
Please let me know what information is needed. I am new-ish to android studio.
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The solution given by Jadhu worked with my previous IDE version. However, I also wanted to see the Action Bar in the preview. I tried to use the solution listed in the Jadhu's link but it still did not show the Action Bar.
After updating the IDE, I no longer need to make any changes but the Action Bar still will not appear.
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Make the Action Bar appear by clicking the "Eye Symbol" drop-down on the upper-left corner of the preview and selecting Show Layout Decorations.
Go to your res/values/styles.xml and change the:
"style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar""
to
"style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar""
if it doesnt work, you may find the answer Here, please feel free to take a look.
Till last time when I used Android Studio a few hours ago, I had a sidebar of controls like 'Clear' and 'Terminate Application' etc. Like this side bar in the Run perspective.
I was using the control to easily terminate applications. But now it's gone, and I don't know how to terminate my applications.
So what should I do to get it back? Is there another easy way to terminate apps?
Addendum: I have seen this question, but I don't know how to find that DDMS perspective. And where are my controls from the Logcat gone?
Came here looking for answer but figure out one myself,in case anyone needs it anyway:
Right click the Android tab (where it says Android above the Emulator/Device name), when the menu pops select 'Show toolbar' .
Android Studio layout has changed since 2015, so for today (Android Studio 4.2.2):
The context menu popup of the Logcat tab (accessible through the little gear icon on the top right of the tab) has the option "show toolbar".
This will bring back toolbar on the left side of Logcat. Hope that info will help someone someday :)
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.