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.
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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 am very new to Android Studio and I'm making a simple form as my first project.
The body of my form is in a ScrollView and it works when run on an actual device (I can see all views and layouts added) but the design tab of Android Studio won't scroll past the device dimensions to show the entire application. How can I edit it to make that possible so I can keep building the form in the design tab?
Android Studio Design tab
For the layout design, which device did you choose? You can change the mode to the device that you are testing.This way it will show up exactly on your device the way you designed in the layout.
(See the picture)
I have an Android app and it has a layout that is duplicated in res->layout folder and in res->layout-xxhdpi. When the device is xxhdpi it uses the second layout and when its other resolution it uses default layout. It works good on real devices.
The problem is when I'm working in Eclipse and I want to change something on default layout. If I change the emulator device (on eclipse ide) to see the render it always open xxhdpi\layout. Is there anyway I could avoid eclipse to open the other layout and render the default layout with the screen I selected. I know if I select a xxhdpi device it must open the second layout but if I select a mpi device I would like to stay on default layout and render it. It is how it works on a real device.
Thanks in advance.
Does anyone know of a way (or if it's even possible) to set the default preview AVD in Android Studio v0.4.5. Every time I create a new activity it shows it in a Nexus 4 preview but as I have TEGRA Note 7 and have a custom AVD created for that, I want to see that as the default.
Is this possible and, if so, can anyone advise how to do it? I've checked all the settings but can't see anything that jumps out.
Thanks in advance.
In Android Studio 1.2.2, I was able to solve this problem by going to Run > Edit configurations...
From there, you can change the default emulator (avd) by clicking Defaults, then Android Application. From there, under Target Device, select your Preferred Android Virtual Device then click Apply or OK.
If that still does not work, you may need to also change this setting at the application level. Instead of clicking Defaults, click Android Application and select the name of the project in question. Then proceed to define the project-specific, preferred AVD as described above.
I have a rooted version of android, which has a custom settings option 'screen' to set the screen resolution. Now I would like to go to that particular screen directly from my app on a button click.
It is not possible to set it using Settings class of android, as it does not a standard screen
present in Custom Android devices.
Is there anyway I can go to the 'screen' option directly from my app?
As you have a custom ROM, naturally, your Settings app is also custom-made for it. It's likely that you can do what you want by passing some values in the intent to start the Settings app. What those values should be can be determined by looking at the source code of the Settings app on your ROM.