I updated Android Studio from version 3.0 to 3.0.1 and I encountered an unexpected error: the entire UI shrunk to unusable size. We're talking buttons, icons, text, the whole bit. The text size in the editor remains unaffected, but my buttons like "debug" and "avd manager" are now about half the size of my mouse pointer, if not smaller.
So is this a config I need to change? I reset to defaults on everything I could find to no avail. Has anyone else experienced this? What can be done?
Notes: On on Windows 10, I have a dual-monitor setup (problem exists on both), the window title bar is (obviously) unaffected, and all I did to get here was click the "update" prompt in the bottom right of Android Studio when it started. Everything was fine at that time.
Since AndroidStudio is based on IntelliJ, I searched a bit and found this on IntelliJ's support pages: Troubleshooting IDE scaling issues on Windows.
Check it out, I hope it helps.
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I have this weird problem with Android studio that's driving me crazy.
I have a new monitor, with a higher resolution (2560x1440), and on that monitor the toolbar menus looks small, they get reduced to 7 rows and I have no idea how to change this behaviour. So far it is the only software that does this, is there some settings where I can change the height of the menus?
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 if it makes any difference.
(sorry for the picture I couldn't take a screenshot with the menu open)
You can change the font size of Android Studio UI. This might help.
File -> Settings -> Appearance and Behavior -> (Tick) Use Custom Font -> Set your desired font size at Right of the Use Custom Font option.
Checkout the Screenshot here
While I still don't know if the problem is solvable via any internal setting in Android Studio, I managed to resolve this issue by swapping my HDMI cable with a DisplayPort. What really puzzled me was the fact that only Android studio seemed to be affected.
I was adding a Google Pixel 3 XL emulator to the list of my Virtual Devices in Android Studio. During the boot my MacOS froze and I had to hard reset. After restarting I booted the emulators and all of them seem to have some rendering issues with the status bar. One also crashed on startup with some OpenGL error. I tried deleting and recreating them with no success.
On the left is a Nexus 5 device with a status bar that seems to have double height. On the right is the Google Pixel 3 XL with some weird transparency and some microchips visible on the right side of the notch.
I am looking for a way to fix this without getting into full Android Studio/SDK cleanup. Even if I did that I'm not sure that would help.
I solved it by updating Android Studio to 3.6.1 and not importing previous settings (this step may not be needed). I then re-created the AVD (this may not be needed either).
For anyone still looking for a fix:
download this image
Locate the image assets folder for the Pixel 3 XL emulator (.\Android\sdk\skins\pixel_3_xl)
Replace round_corners.webp with the image you downloaded.
I found the solution and a short explanation of the issue HERE.
This worked well and the problem started happenning about two weeks ago.
I run a Chrome on a Windows 10 computer. I have already tried uninstalling, and then reinstalling Chrome since the issue started. No change.
This is what happens:
1) I start Android emulator
2) Run my cordova app in it
3) Go to chrome://inspect and click on the link for my running app on emulator. It is listed ok, that works.
4) The DevTools window opens, but it does not show all the information as it did. I see half of the screen blank. The menu tabs sometimes don't show, I have to minimize, then maximize, then they MAY show.
There are no scrollbars for any of the content panels so I cannot actually see anything useful.
I tried clicking on the gear icon in the top right of the screen, to open Settings, and see if changing something there would fix it. Nothing. The settings window opens but it will ONLY show the links on the left to the settings areas. The right side where the settings controls should be, is completely blank.
I have created a new emulator and the same happened.
I have Android Studio 3.0.1
I tried inspecting the devtools with shift-ctrl-j
It is showing some strange errors. As if it was loading an older version of itself:
Please help, I need to use this to debug my cordova app during development and I don't know what else to do. Thank you.
As explained in Kayce Basques's answer, this is due to a problem with versions of Chrome since 63.
The solution is to use an older version of Chromium.
Here are the download links for the the latest version of Chromium (version 62.0.3202.94, branch base position 499098) which support it:
macOS: https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/chromium-browser-snapshots/o/Mac%2F499098%2Fchrome-mac.zip?generation=1504230238091965&alt=media
Windows 64 bits: https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/chromium-browser-snapshots/o/Win_x64%2F499095%2Fchrome-win32.zip?generation=1504230103809077&alt=media
Feel free to edit this post to add the links for other platforms.
Check out: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-chrome-developer-tools/s47cbyLKvxA
I haven't digested the thread fully, but I think it's due to a deprecation in Chrome that is outside of the DevTools team's control.
Please let us know if this is indeed the same issue that you're seeing.
I am learning how to use android studio, and I'm enjoying it so far. However, I'm a little bit OCD, and the breakpoint column in my version of Android Studio is really wide and it's kind of annoying me. I can't figure out how to resize it! I first provided a screenshot of the instructor's Android Studio, followed by mine:
http://imgur.com/a/oLYQN
Thanks!
As far as I know, there is no direct way to change the size of the gutter.
From what I am able to see in the tiny portion of the screenshots, the difference between your gutter, and the instructor's, might be due to original screen resolution or Android Studio's version.
That said, there is one very simple way to indirectly change the size of the gutter by disabling the icons shown on it.
On Android Studio go to Preferences > Editor > General > Gutter Icons, and uncheck Show gutter icons. It will reduce the gutter size to something similar to what can be seen in the instructor's screenshot (although, he does have gutter icons).
I have a problem with any wizard that its height more than or equal my screen height in android studio, the issue simply that the buttons hidden under Windows TaskBar, see the following image :
I have the latest Android Studio IDE 1.3 build AI-141.2117773
My JDK version is 8 Update 45, on Windows 10 Pro (build 10240)
My Screen resolution 1366 x 768 (for laptop 15 inches screen)
Any solution for this issue?
Well its not only the problem of yours but its a bug in the studio for 1366x768 resolution which is discussed in the forums so my suggestion is that use the tab keys to have a control on the keys that are beyond your cursor reach or you may use the autohide feature of your taskbar..
Either:
get new laptop, with specs more suitable for development
set taskbar to autohide mode
move taskbar elsewhere (I personally prefer it on a side)
It's old question but as #Ravi Rathore said, its bug for 1366x768 screen, its old bug but with low priority for Google -_-
Anyway there is a solution for it provided in their forum:
Open android studio.
Go to settings
Go to appearances.
Change the theme to windows
Here: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=168828