How can I change spacing in Android Studio to use tabs instead of spaces? I tried Preference -> Editor but I don't see the option there. I'm using Android Studio for Mac
Type in 'spac' in the search panel of the settings view.
You will find Editor -> Code Style->Java->Tabs and Indents->Use tab character.
This is a little weird, but others may have the same issue I did.
Yes, follow the above directions, and do the normal changes in the config file. And guess what? it looks like it's still making spaces instead of tabs, even though the settings say TABS, not spaces!
Turn on "show whitespaces" (Editor -> General -> Appearance). And then turn it off. Looks like this is enough to reset the editor so that it is now following the rules you set in the preferences.
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Recently the Android Studio 3.5 updates and now Android Studio 3.6, the editor window does not wrap the text so some lines are long and go off the right of the screen. I don't want to scroll left and right all the time, so would like the text to autowrap. I've read many posts on the issue but nothings has solved it.
I've tried going to
Preferences -> Editor -> General and enabling soft wraps there, but that hasn't helped.
I tried adding *.java to the soft wraps files but that didn't help.
The only thing that works is selecting View -> Active Editor - Soft Wrap. That formats the current editing window with auto wrap, but each time I open a new java file auto wrap is not enabled I would need to enable it again. This is so frustrating and was never an issue before Android Studio 3.5. Any help would be appreciated.
I had the same problem, and my solution should work for you. The delimiter in the soft-wrap file list is a semicolon, not a comma: change your comma to a semicolon.
I don't know why but sometime in Android Studio Editor, it shows vertical line as shown in screenshot below.
Don't know about other editor but it happens in Android Studio.
So why it is showing and how to hide it?
That line historically represents the margin of A4 paper, which is useful only if you need to print the code.
Old school says that you should keep your code inside that margin, to guarantee much portability.
But.. nowadays in the real life, it makes no sense to me! Because we always use advanced editors, bigger displays, and I never needed to print any single line of code.
So, if you want to do it:
Newer versions
Editor -> General -> Appearance -> Show hard wrap guide
Older versions
Editor -> General -> Appearance -> Show right margin
or
Editor -> Appearance -> Show right margin
For Mac
To remove line go to:- Preference-> Editor -> General -> Appearance -> Show hard wrap and visual guides. Uncheck it to remove.
It is as follows in the newer version of Android Studio:
Editor -> General -> Appearance -> Show hard wrap guide
im Mac
Open Android Studio and Click
cmd + ,
and follow this step:
Android Studio has changed layout again, so you can find this option at:
File -> Settings -> Editor -> General -> Appearance -> Show hard wrap and visual guides
As it is mentioned earlier, if your code is of that length, it is pretty obvious that it is not that readable, i.e. clean. Being old school, I keep it at 80 characters and spill occasionally.
How can I set a maximum length for Android Studio's code editor, or may be set a word wrap?
In my Android Studio, no matter how long a statement I type on a single line, it never automatically goes to the next line, but rather a horizontal scroll bar appears.
When I autoformat using the Ctrl+Alt+L (reference), nothing happens.
My SO or Google search found a lot of material on this for Eclipse, but not for Android Studio.
If you need not a soft wrap,
but actually, brake one long line onto several lines you need:
Go to Preferences(mac) or Settings(windows) -> Editor -> Code style -> Java/Kotlin -> Wrapping and braces (tab) -> Check "Ensure that right margin is not exceeded"
Now try to reformat your code:
press
OPTION (ALT) + CMD + L on your Mac
(or CTRL + ALT + L on PC)
Edit 13.02.19
As noted in comments this option seems not available in settings for Kotlin.
However, there is a workaround to manually add it.
Here is what it takes to make it work:
Export the settings scheme.
Open saved xml file.
Find <codeStyleSettings language="kotlin"> tag (or create)
Add the WRAP_LONG_LINES setting manually:
<codeStyleSettings language="kotlin">
...
<option name="WRAP_LONG_LINES" value="true" />
</codeStyleSettings>
Save edits and and import back the scheme.
Here you go!
MacOS:
Click on Android Studio ( left top corner )
Click Preferences
Type Code Style in search
Click on Code Style
There is a filed right to the 'Hard wrap at' - you can enter needed about of symbols you need
In File | Settings, select "Editor", then "Code Style". There is an option "Wrap when typing reaches right margin".
Edit: Just tried it, and it doesn't seem to work. Anyway, maybe the option "Use soft wrap" in the "General" group is more what you want.
#Solace, actually #Fahim Faysal's answer is quite close to what you need, but since you want to solve the problem no matter how long a statement I type on a single line, it never automatically goes to the next line, 2 more steps you need to follow:
[Step 9] type the max length you prefer at `"Hard wrap at" ()
[Step 10] change "Wrap on typing" from Default: No or No to Yes
With version 4.1.2 and with Dart language you need to go to "File/Settings/Editor/Code Style/Dart" and modify the "Line length" to the preferred number.
In Android Studio:
File->Setting->
Editor->code Style->java->Wrapping and braces(tab:right side)->keep when reformatting->Line break(make unchecked)
You can change the max column width from:
File > Settings > Editor > Code Style > Right Margin (columns)
Android Studio 3.5:
Mac -
Android Studio > Preferences > Editor > CodeStyle > HardWrap at: ____
The existing answers already answer the question in straight forward way. As a different approach you could set the style guide to kotlin style guide code style. Then if you do alt + ctrl + l as you did, you'll see auto wrap as you expected.
Just open the settings, search for kotlin and look for kotlin under code style.
On the top right hand side of the settings window you'll see Set from..., click on it.
Then on predifined style > kotlin style guide
If you'd like to follow the kotlin formatting style this could reduce more effort. For more information: https://developer.android.com/kotlin/style-guide
My Environment：
Ubuntu 18.04
AndroidStudio 3.3.2
My operate：
File -> Settings -> Editor -> Code Style
Scheme -> select Project
Hard wrap at '120'
Apply
To move the grey vertical line, that tells Android Studio where to wrap your code, go to
Settings- Editor- Code Style- Java or Kotlin- Wrapping and Braces- Hard wrap at
and enter the number of characters, where the line should be.
For dart
settings => code style => Dart => Line length
In settings/code style/kotlin/wrapping and braces replace the "do not wrap" values with "wrap if long"
You can change the Hard wrap at param
Been searching through the editor settings for quite a while but I can't figure out how to turn off the vertical line break in Android Studios 0.8.2. Driving me crazy!!!
It was driving me crazy as well. For older versions (like 0.8.2), Open the Options and uncheck:
Editor -> Appearance -> Show right margin
More recent versions use:
Editor -> General -> Appearance -> Show right margin
AS 3.x:
Editor -> General -> Appearance -> Show hard wrap guide
With Android Studio 1.2.2
File > Settings > Editor > General > Appearance
Or you can just write in the search box of Settings: "right margin"
In Android Studio 1.1.0:
File > Settings > Editor > Appearance > Show right margin (uncheck)
update:
AS 3.x:
Editor -> General -> Appearance -> Show hard wrap guide
In Android Studio 3.1.2, Show right margin is replaced by Show hard wrap guide. (I don't know in which release, this change rolled-out)
Uncheck highlighted option and save. The vertical code line indents will be gone.
File > Settings > Editor > General > Appearance > Code Style > Hard Warp at
Even I'm afraid of down votes but I don't understand why you guys want to hide this line, don't you think it's really useful ?
It helps us know when we should make a new line to match coding convention (code-line width). And the short code-lines (max 80-120 characters) make your code:
Readability
Easier to review code before committing it to the repository (without horizontal scrolling).
Easier to track changes of the committed-history (without horizontal scrolling).
Work with two files at a time (Split vertically in Android Studio) (without horizontal scrolling).
This unbelievably annoying line is the default in various editors. Netbeans, Eclipse, LiClipse, VS Code, and now Android Studio Chipmunk 2021.2.1 Patch 1 for Linux 64-bit.
I had to click on File > Settings > Editor > General > Appearance and remove the checkbox on Show hard wrap and visual guides (configured in Code Style options).
I remember this used to be called a print margin or something in Netbeans. This vertical 80 character limit line is a tad hard to find in the IDE settings and often difficult to search the internet for the correct settings to disable it too. The variety of answers on this page shows how much the Android SDK team has changed the IDE too.
People have discussed the relevance of such a vertical line here, here and on various other websites. Since the percentage of people who hate it are lesser than the percentage of people who like/tolerate it, I guess IDE's are going to continue keeping it as a default.I wouldn't mind it if that line's colour was at least a lot more subtle.
This very annoying vertical line that you will find with the android studio chipmunk release by default. There is no easy way to disable it as it is difficult to find.
It is under
Preference->Editor->General->Appearance
Uncheck []show hard wrap and visual guide(Configure in Code Style option)
That works on chipmunk release.
I noticed a strange behaviour in my VS2012 installation. I use VS2012 Pro and ReSharper 7. Intellisense is just not showing code suggestions anymore. I found a few related questions in my research but they always had a slightly different setup going and none could solve my problem:
Intellisense is working but, it's not showing the tooltip about selected member functions/Properties anymore.
If I take a look at the C# Text Editor Settings in
Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> C# -> General
Most of the times the two necessary boxes Auto List Members and Parameter Information are selected. However, code suggestions in Intellisense don't work. Sometimes, when I look at the described settings, they are unselected.
Selecting them will make code suggestions work as in VS2010 but, only once. When I check the settings afterwards, they are most likely still selected, but code suggestions are not working anymore.
Some people suggested deleting the %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0 Folder, which did not work for me. I also tried to reset all changes, which also didn't help at all.
Tools -> Import and Export Settings -> Reset
What in the world could make Visual Studio to just forget its settings and trigger such an irrational behavior?
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I display the code suggestions by pressing CTRL+Alt+Space. However, I have to press that shortcut every time I want to see the suggestions. It has to be possible to automatically display them every time, when possible?
I was having a similar problem, but I kept overlooking one small ReSharper Intellisense setting. I would double check that you have Symbol completion on in
ReSharper | Options | Intellisense | Completion Characters
Check out the answer with screenshots.
Thanks for all the tips, I figured out what I had missing:
I had to enable "Completion Appearance" -> "Show Summary".
I also accepted Anthonys answer because he linked to a detailed post with screenshots that shows all steps necessary. (Although the thing I had missing is not mentioned there)
ReSharper uses it's own code suggestions that override Visual Studio ones, that could be the reason why the ones in the Visual Studio settings may be disabled. Please check ReSharper options at ReSharper -> Options -> Environment -> IntelliSense. Maybe they are turned off there. If your ReSharper options are turned on but you still have no intellisense, then please ReSharper's support at http://www.jetbrains.com/support/