Where on Earth is the File Explorer Window in Android Studio - android

Guys at JetBrains must love to hide the most common tools. Why can't the Android Studio be at least as good as the old eclipse plugin.
Just where on Earth did the file explorer window go?
I've already read:
File Explorer in Android Studio
How to get to the file explorer in android studio
But this is all I can get:
Where is the file explorer tab supposed to be found? When I clicked the Android Device Monitor button it said it was already shown. But now it gives me a "Failed to create the Java VM" error that disconnects the device, and a few seconds later it reconnects again.
Using Android Studio v1.1.0

Solved thanks to #Lipi's answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25159856.
The .ini file was trying to give the monitor too much memory, and reducing it solved the issue. That file is in the Android SDK folder, it's not inside AS.
Android Studio does not currently show the file explorer as a tab in the IDE, it just uses the SDK's and opens it in a separate window.

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Android Studio: open file operation failed (The open file operation failed to connect to the open and save panel service.)

I have been using Android studio for quite a while now, but one day the application just suddenly go wrong. When I try to click on my directories to find the files to import or open, the application gets incredibly slow and not responsive at all. When I finally successfully switch to the intended directory where my file is stored, the directory doesn't show anything that can be opened (as shown in the screenshot, where I try to open a file from my download folder but it doesn't show anything).
This error message kept showing up as well (open file operation failed: The open file operation failed to connect to the open and save panel service.)
I have tried to uninstall and re-download Android studio for several times but the problem still remains.
I'm on the latest macOS beta - I've seen the same issue with Artic Fox build of AS.
I upgraded to the Beta Previews of AS and this issue went away.
https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/index.html
This is stable WORKAROUND:
Launch Android studio (stable)
Help - Edit Custom VM Options
Put this options -Dide.mac.file.chooser.native=false
Restart Android studio
I'm having the same issue. Not sure what is going on, but I'm opening from the command line in the meantime to get to the correct directory:
open -a /Applications/Android\ Studio.app /path/to/my_android_project

Is there anyway to download emulator image to configure it manually for Android Studio?

I want to animage for Android Studio Emulator but I don't want to do that from AVD Manager. I want to download it from a website so I can use this image in any other computer by copying and pasting it instead of wasting time every time I format my computer and reinstall Android Studio.
Is there anyway to do that? Or it must be downloaded and configured by Android Studio?
by the way, I use version 3.4.
The emulator images are in ~/.android/avd You can copy subdirectories (along with the .ini files) from there.

How to open Android Device Monitor in latest Android Studio 3.1

Recently I updated my android studio, after the update, I am unable to find android device monitor option in the tools section. In the previous update it was there in tools->android->android device monitor. But now in the updated version, it is not present. You can check screenshot of my android studio.
If you want to push or pull your files from devices monitor now android studio offers something better then android monitor. Just take a look at right side of your studio there is an option device file explorer. Open it and you are good to go. Select your device from top dropdown and rest of everything is pretty much the same as it was in android monitor. Below is the screen Shot attached to give you the exact location and idea.
Now you can use device file explorer instead of device monitor. Go to
view > tool windows > device file explorer
screenshot: opening device file explorer in android studio 3.1.3
More details
Click View > Tool Windows > Device File Explorer or click the Device File Explorer button in the tool window bar to open the Device File Explorer.
Select a device from the drop down list.
Interact with the device content in the file explorer window. Right-click on a file or directory to create a new file or directory, save the selected file or directory to your machine, upload, delete, or synchronize. Double-click a file to open it in Android Studio.
Android Studio saves files you open this way in a temporary directory outside of your project. If you make modifications to a file you opened using the Device File Explorer, and would like to save your changes back to the device, you must manually upload the modified version of the file to the device.
screenshot: The Device File Explorer tool window
When exploring a device's files, the following directories are particularly useful:
data/data/app_name/
Contains data files for your app stored on internal storage
sdcard/
Contains user files stored on external user storage (pictures, etc.)
Note: Not all files on a hardware device are visible in the Device
File Explorer. For example, in the data/data/ directory, entries
corresponding to apps on the device that are not debuggable cannot be
expanded in the Device File Explorer.
To start the standalone Device Monitor application, enter the following on the command line in the android-sdk/tools/ directory:
monitor
You can then link the tool to a connected device by selecting the device from the Devices pane. If you have trouble viewing panes or windows, select Window > Reset Perspective from the menu bar.
Note: Each device can be attached to only one debugger process at a time. So, for example, if you are using Android Studio to debug your app on a device, you need to disconnect the Android Studio debugger from the device before you attach a debugger process from the Android Device Monitor.
reference : https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/monitor.html
=> You Can change minSdkVersion 16 And open Device File Explorer
Device File Explorer work same as a Android Device Monitor
See Below Image:
From Android Studio 3.1 Device Monitor available from the command line only.
In Android Studio 3.1, the Device Monitor serves less of a role than
it previously did. In many cases, the functionality available through
the Device Monitor is now provided by new and improved tools.
See the Device Monitor documentation for instructions for invoking the
Device Monitor from the command line and for details of the tools
available through the Device Monitor.
To start the standalone Device Monitor application, enter the following on the command line in the android-sdk/tools/ directory:
monitor
To start the standalone Device Monitor application, enter the following on the command line in the android-sdk/tools/ directory:
monitor
But remember
Most of the Android Device Monitor componenets are deprecated after 3.0
For detail info visit this link
To get it to work I had to switch to Java 8 from Java 10 (In my system PATH variable) then go to
C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\tools\lib\monitor-x86_64 and run monitor.exe.
jdk max version is 1.8.0_144
then run monitor
As said in "Testing the game on your Android device", I followed these three steps
With the game still running on your device, return to your computer.
Navigate to the directory containing the Android SDK Tools.
Navigate to tools and double click the application called monitor.
This was prompting the following error
I've also tested using cmd and the same error persisted
To fix it, I had to go to AndroidSDKTools\tools\lib\monitor-x86_64 and double click in the monitor application
And then the Android Device Manager just started as normal
You still can run it from File explorer on Windows 10 with the proper path. You just need to go to C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\tools\lib\monitor-x86_64 and double click the file monitor.
If you want to use in the cmd just the 'monitor' command you have to add this folder (in my case with android studio 3.4.1 and win10) to your Environment variables. So, press the start button and then type Edit the system environment variabes click it and System properties window should open. Then go to
Environment variables => System variables => path
press the Edit button for path and add the new value
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\tools\lib\monitor-x86_64
click 'Ok', 'Ok' and 'Ok' and restart the cmd window if you had it opened and type 'monitor' and it should open the monitor as well.
Hope it helps!
PD: This answer was based on this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/55077068/5360905 from Tiago Martins Peres
ADM was deprecated in 3.1 version of android studio and removed from Android Studio 3.2. Android Device Monitor have been replaced by new features and to start Android Device Monitor application in android studio 3.1 and lower, following the commend line android-sdk/tools/ directory:
monitor
If you're looking for the Hierarchy Viewer tool, it has been changed to Layout Inspector:
https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/layout-inspector.html
Android Device Monitor was deprecated in Android Studio 3.1 and removed from Android Studio 3.2
Use Android Profiler introduced in Android Studio 3.0 to measure the cpu utilisation, network, memory etc,. To open Android Profiler: View -> Tool Windows -> Profiler.
Android Device Monitor has been replaced by some new feature which you can find here.
According to developer docs, it's deprecated now. Please follow these docs:
developer link
On Android Studio 3.1 and above, you can push photos to the emulator, by first starting the emulator. Then select “Device File Explorer” from the menu at the top of the screen: View/Tool Window/Device File Explorer
Then look in the folder titled “sdcard” and you will see a folder titled “Pictures”, click on it.
Then right click it and select “Upload” and navigate to the photo on your computer, to the photo you would like to push onto the emulator. The restart the emulator.
See photo below:
example of uploading a photo to emulator
Check this link out.
Open your terminal and type: Android_Sdk_Path/tools
Run ./monitor

Where is Android Studio monitor workspace?

I want open my Android database using SqlLite manager on mozilla.
I took some error when I tried to open Android Device Manager. The error log is in 1439225229207.txt file. I looked for the the reason and I found:
java.io.IOException: The folder "C:\Users\Myname.android\monitor-workspace.metadata" is read-only.
Unfortunately i couldn't find monitor-workspace in .android file. I enabled show hidden files but it was'n still there.
What you advice?
I fixed it by running android studio as administrator,

Android Studio 1.1.0 file explorer

Hi guys I'm having troubles to find the file explorer in the new version and there is no perspective like in eclipse.
File Explorer in Android Studio is from a previous version of Android Studio
Thanks and regards.
this is the Android Device Monitor in Android Studio and the file explorer tab should be there but is not.
Perhaps you accidentally closed it. I just ran the Android Device Monitor, from Android Studio 1.1, and the File Explorer tab appears as normal. However, as with the other tabs, it has an "x" in the tab to close it, and if you do that, it will no longer show up.
To make it appear again, choose Window > Show View from the Android Device Monitor main menu, and choose Android > File Explorer in the tree of available views. Click OK, and the tab should reappear.

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