When editing layouts, my computer lags a lot when it shows both the Design and Blueprint views like so :
I can press that blue icon at the top left to disable Blueprint but I have to do it for every layout. Is there a way to permanently disable it for Android Studio?
Yes, you can do this just click on blue print design and press 'B' button and it will hide and you want it again then press "B" again and again.
hope it works..
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I have somehow pressed a key combination that has disabled my ability to view two tool windows (Project and Structure) at the same time on the left side of the Android Studio screen.
I want to be able to visually see both tools at the same time (which was the default until my key combo somehow disabled it) like this:
I have searched in vain for the magic key combo or menu item to turn this back on. I have tried reloading the default layout configuration, but that does not work. I have tried all the options from the "Window" menu, that also doesn't appear to manage the view for allowing the second tool window you click on to show up nested under the first one.
I remember seeing something about this once on SO but I can't find it.
Help!
Just drag and drop the 'Structure' tab from where it is (left pane, but on the top) to the bottom part of the left pane (close to 'Build variants' on your screen).
Here's the photo
Edit: You can as well just right click the 'Structure' tab -> 'Move to' -> 'Left bottom'.
The problem is that they cannot be both on the top left.
I'm following the tutorial Writing your first Android app – everything you need to know, and the 'coding' part essentially starts when the author tells you to select the default "Hello World" TextView, at the top left of the design view, and change its position and text. I have done this before, and I know there is supposed to be green frame drawn around the TextView when you click it. In fact, when I select the XML in the text view for the TextView, a green frame is indeed drawn around it, but I can't move it or find the "Properties" pane for it.
Why can't I select it in the design view? The tutorial goes on to change its position and content, but I cannot proceed until I can select it.
Strangely enough, there is a FloatingActionButton at the bottom right of the design view that I can select just as expected.
NOTE: This has something to do with the theme. I changed the theme, and was able to select and move the TextView. However, I don't remember which theme, and when I closed and re-opened the project, this were back to normal, and I could only select the FloatingActionButton. Then, I tried a few other themes, and now I can't even select the button.
Recently I was playing with ConstraintLayout introduced in Android Studio 2.2 preview.
Screen was like above, but suddenly I have pressed few keys and that black screen disappears.
Does anyone have any idea about how to get back the design screen?
There are 2 buttons in the bar above that screen
The one selected here toggles the design, the one to the right (the blue grid) toggles the blueprint.
So in your case click the Show Design button to make it reappear.
If your Android Studio window is too small, these buttons will auto-hide, so if you can't see them make sure that your window is big enough.
N.B.: if both screens are visible and you click Show Design, it will hide the blueprint, and vice versa. This may be a bug.
How can I arrange windows in the Android Studio?
For example, dock Android-DDMS window to the right side of the IDE.
I've found only tabbed view on the bottom or floating, both I don't like.
You can drag the numbered labels around the screen. You want the 6th tab (6: Android). Simply drag it to the right size.
Another way would be: Right click on the label -> Move to -> Right/Left/Top/Bottom.
My eclipse's（ADT bundle Mac OSX） console view and logcat view are located at the right side of the screen. When activated, they will cover my code editor. （When I maximize them they will automatically move to the bottom, but when minimized they fly back to the right side again.）
status 1:normal ,them cover the editor,
status 2: when I max them, look like good, but
status 3:when minimize them, backto status 1
You can click the title of the tab and drag it to a new location (in this case the bottom of the page)
I know this is an old thread but it comes up in the top google results so I thought I'd reply with a solution. I was having the same issue as the OP, even when docking on the bottom of the editor Console was still minimizing to the left side.
I fixed this inadvertently while fixing another annoyance (non re-sizable toolbar sections).
Go to Window->Preferences->General->Appearences
Change theme to Windows 7
Restart Eclipse
Dock to bottom of screen and minimize.
This worked for me, hope it helps someone else out there.
First, make sure it the view is open. Then, click on the Logcat tab and drag it to the bottom of the page. Do this for the Console tab and any other tab that you want at the bottom of the page. Then, minimize them and open them again. They should remain at the bottom of the page.
It looks like right now you have it in the same pane as where the code normally resides.
Since Eclipse Neon (4.6, June 2016), you don't need to drag each tab individually. You can just drag the empty space after the tabs to move the whole stack of views.
You can do this both when the stack is minimized/maximized and when it's not.
In Eclipse version 2020-09 (4.17.0), one can reset the display by selecting "Window >> Perspective >> Reset Perspective"
First, minimize the whole output console. Then select the location by single click dragging it down to the bottom of the page & then open it & select it by dragging it from the top in the required area.
Window->Perspective->Reset Prespective will solve that