I find the "Preview" view in Android Studio super useful to see how my UI will appear on the device. The preview almost matches my in-app layout.
Our app has a fullscreen UI, which even hides the status bar. This works great on the device, but the preview insists on displaying the status bar. I haven't been able to figure out how to remove it editing an activity ui.
To be clear, I'm not talking about the App Titlebar, or the system buttons (home, back, etc).
Change your layout theme to NoTitleBar.FullScreen.
With Android studio version 3.3.2:
In Previews screen, Apply NoTitleBar.FullScreen theme to your layout.
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I concisely described the problems in the screenshots; read the below description IF needed.
The bottom bar on the Android Emulator showing the three hardware buttons (square/circle/triangle = Overview/Home/Back, respectively) suddenly disappeared. They were there the night before. Next morning, poof! Gone.
Ok, so the three buttons don't show on the emulator. So then I use the SIDE PANEL which ALSO shows the hardware buttons. HOWEVER, the square Overview button (⌘O) (aka the App Switcher button) in the side panel DOESN'T WORK. This means I can't open the app switcher now (where you see all apps running in the background).
So the hardware buttons on the screen have disappeared, and the side panel (as a backup) that also has these buttons -- well, ITS square Overbutton button (⌘O) doesn't work, so the side panel is not helping either.
I used the AVD manager to add a replica of the device, and it fixed the issues, but then after some days, the same issue occurs again. I'm using MacOS.
Any suggestions? Thanks much!
IMAGE: App Switcher (Overview) button not working
IMAGE: Hardware buttons that look like these no longer showing
Tl;dr: in AVD, edit your device, click "Change" on your hardware profile, then un-select "Has hardware buttons"
For me, this was all I was missing, and after a Cold Boot of my device the 3 hardware buttons showed on the bottom of the emulator again.
Official Android Studio documentation on hardware profile properties:
Input: Has Hardware Buttons
Select this option if your device has hardware navigation buttons.
Deselect it if these buttons are implemented in software only. If you
select this option, the buttons won’t appear on the screen. You can
use the emulator side panel to "press" the buttons, in either case.
If you're using AVD through Android Studio, I would check out the answer to this question, it seems to have more updated screenshots than a lot of answers on here: Android Studio emulator missing hardware buttons
Android Studio version: 2022.3.1
I brought an app source code from (CodeCanyon) and i want to change the side navigation drawer icon from the given one to the default hamburger icon or something.
They have given me the docs of Flutter page to change it using Flutter Inspector but i don't know how to do it.
Here is the link they send me...
https://flutter.dev/docs/development/tools/devtools/inspector
Help me out...
From Android Studio, run the application in an Emulator or real device.
In the debug tab of Android Studio the 'Open DevTools' button (its icon is the Dart logo) next to the Hot Reload and Hot Restart buttons. This will launch a Dart DevTools tab.
After the new browser tab opens, click the "Try DevTools beta" button in the top right of the screen. This will take you to a new beta version of DevTools.
From there you will see what the linked page is talking about, but you must be on the latest version of Flutter.
On 25th june flutter has declared the stable dev tool, in that if you want to change in ui then,you just have to open dev tool with your connected device and in Flutter inspector enable the select widget mode. and in layout explorer you can changes the ui design properties. But remember one thing you can only changes in the row, column and container properties.
I keep getting a flashing red icon in the bottom right-hand corner of Android Studio every time it wants me to report a bug in the IDE. It's really irritating! Does anyone know how to disable this feature please? I'm using Studio 2.3.3.
Just report the bug... It helps the team behind Android Studio to improve their product. Wouldn't you want people to do the same when your own app crashes ?
If you still want to hide it, the only solution is to remove the entire status bar in View > Status Bar
I have recently installed Android Studio with genymotion emulator based on a youtube tutorial. I'm designing a simple calculator with only one button and two Number(EditText) views . When designing, it is showing different views at different positions.But, when I run it, in the emulator, all the views are appearing in the top corner. How can I resolve this issue?
It sounds like you are using the ConstraintLayout from Android Studio, and you are missing the constraints for your layout.
To fix, go inside the Layout Editor, and click on the infer constraints button (https://developer.android.com/training/constraint-layout/index.html#use-autoconnect-and-infer-constraints) , recompile and deploy to your device and the buttons should be in the correct spot.
I'll also note, you should try the official Android Emulator: https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator.html
I have recently installed Android Studio 2.2.2. But in the IDE the preview and design window for xml not showing complete mobile-like appearance that I used to view in previous version, rather it is showing only the mobile screen with rulers around. How can I see full featured preview/design? Pls advice.
I was also looking for this, But its new functionally it will look like this by default. only screen and blueprints, No mobile.
https://developer.android.com/studio/write/layout-editor.html