I'm new to android studio and trying to create a simple app with multiple tabs that displays different graphs. I've managed to plot my graphs in the app fine but for some reason the graph keeps going out of the screen. I'm pretty sure the screen i have is 5.46" and i have that in my android studio settings (im also using the constraint widget to try and keep everything in place) but it still goes out of border. I'm thinking its possible this issue is happening because i have my orientation set to landscape in the 'orientation preview' button. If the issue is with the landscape then how do i convert my app to landscape?
screenshot of my android studio:
And this is what it displays on my device:
By the way, the device I'm using is not an andriod phone or tablet, its a screen with andriod installed on it.
I'm at the moment developing an app for tablets and the app isn't supposed to be available for phones.
When I edit an XML in Android Studio, there's the design preview that shows roughly how the XML will be rendered on the device. By default it's set to show it in a phone device. How do I set this to be a tablet view?
By default, it should have a nexus 5 and an icon at the top. Click on that icon ans a list of devices will appear.In the third listView you will find Nexus 7 where it is a tablet. CHoose one from that listView.
Go to XML EDITOR
Click on Device Editor
Now you will see different type of Device with there Name ,resolution and size
Bottom of the device list you will see Generic Phones and Tablets
In Android Studio, go to Preview - Top Toolbar:
The pixel phone name will let you choose the screen to show in the
Android Studio Preview so, this can be helpful to design the layout
for Tablets.
The second icon, has two options called Landscape and portrait which the first one Landscape will help to design the layout for the purpose.
The second option & important is, Create Tablet Variation which creates few directories for designing the Tablet layout.
There is also an option in the phone icon called Generic phones and Tablets which you might consider using.
I have an Android 7.1 device, and I need something to change my "minimum width". I change that through "Developer mode" options, there I can change that.
The point is that I want to create an app that does that without going every time to options menu, and I just press on a widget and it changed. I want to know if there is any API or function to access and change that option directly from Android Studio....
Thanks for helping!
I dont think that Android Studio is able to interact with device developer options.
But if you need is to test screen layouts with different device screen widths, Android Studio let you visualize screen layout rendering preview ("design" bottom tab of layout editor) and choose different device configurations (device combobox in top of editor) with different min-widths configuration. You can also create your custom configuration.
Hi I just started learning programming in android and I wanted to know why is the layout and the colour of the navigation bar in the simulator is different to what is being shown in android studio? Please see the image attached.
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I am trying to develop an android application. I've put a scroll view as main container using graphical layout in eclipse. After that, I had put some UI elements, like buttons. When the total height of elements become more than viewable area, it can be seen using scroll view as expected. There is no problem until this point. The problem is the elements that are not fit viewable are of the screen can not be seen using graphical container of the eclipse interface. There is no problem with the source code, as it runs expectedly. Is there any option in the Eclipse gui to see the UI elements that are not fit the viewport?
I know what you're talking about. When you're viewing the xml file on the Eclipse Graphical layout you can only see the elements that fit on the screen. You can't scroll down to see the entire UI.
I use Eclipse at home and work. I'm using Eclipse Helios Service Release 1, on both systems. For some reason at home, when I'm on the graphical layout, there's a button on the upper right of the graphical viewer that says something like 'Remove Clipping'. (I'm at work now. So can't look to see exactly what it says).
When I click that button, I can now scroll down to see the entire UI. However, on my copy of Eclipse at work that same button isn't displayed. I've tried to figure out what the difference is between the setup on the two copies of Eclipse. But so far haven't been able to figure it out. Note, I've tried viewing the same exact xml file, within the same project, on both copies of Eclipse.
The problem seems to only occur when you're using a scrollview and all the ui elements won't fit on the graphical layout screen within Eclipse.
I have the same problem. I've been unable to troubleshoot, so I've resorted to using my physical device instead. I try to get the bulk of work done within the the Eclipse GUI... then nudge and polish with my device. Its a PITA to be sure, uploading what seems like a million times only to move one element a tiny bit more.
Best practices recommend developing on a device. Further, the Layout-tools && scrollView basically make it mandatory to really know what is going on. I can't seem to form this into a coherent search argument as my Google-fu has let me down on this one.
BTW - I'm using the shiny new r10 ADT plugin and I've been struggling with this for about 6 months.
Another workaround: You can use a smaller-ish tablet port in the GUI to get a really rough idea of what you are working with.
If your target layout is for a phone or smaller device, simply switch the preview to a larger screen size configuration.
In the upper left corner, under where it says 'Editing config: ~default', The list provides you with a number of screen sizes to target. Pick the 10.1 in version, and it will scale the preview, and will then allow you to see and work with all of the views that have scrolled off the screen.
Cheers-
I think this is an old topic but I was having the same issue. I have 2 apps made from outsourcing. when I opened each in eclipse one would show the full contents of the scrollview and one was clipped off. After numerous google searches nothing came up as a solution. I just happen to look and saw the app that is clipped was android version 1.6 and the app that shows everything like i wanted it to so I can use the graphical layout for a scrollview was android verion 2.1.
So i changed the one app to version 2.1 and it fixed it. noone seemed to address that. so for me the fix was make sure the android version you are building for is 2.1. you can always change it back to 1.6 compatable after you are done designing.
Hope this helps
The best way i could figure out is to give negetive top margin to the root layout that will make the rest of the content visible. This is only for dev purpose and should be removed when completed