I recently switched to Android Studio and noticed that the tool windows have a Docked Mode option when I click on the little Gear icon in each tool window.
I personally prefer the Un-Docked Mode(as the tool window minimizes conveniently when I click in the editor) and set every tool window(except the Project Explorer) to be Un-Docked.
But every time I restart Android Studio it irritatingly converts all Tool Windows back to Docked Mode.This was very easy to do in Eclipse but after searching online for quite a bit, I still don't know how to save the UnDocked mode for Tool Windows in Android Studio. Any ideas how to solve this?
Today's update to Android Studio 0.5.5 fixed the problem for me! Now Android Studio always remembers to save the state of the tool windows!
Unlike #kpsfoo, I want the tool window on the docked mode, but I did something and wasn't able to go back... Finally I went to file > settings > I did search for "docked" in the search box and created a keyboard shortcut. This way I'm able to quickly switch on and off the docked mode.
I hope it could help somebody...
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I only need what's relevant for the development and testing. I don't need the huge "emulated" dumb bezel area mostly good for grabbing and relocating the emulator window. Even the real devices start to eliminate those bezels nowadays.
I don't need the directional clues about the device orientation it provides. Just small grabbing handle should be enough on the tool strip or in the main window.
It wastes screen real estate and makes tiling besides other useful windows hard or inefficient (even with my double monitor setup).
How can i hide or remove it?
It no longer works: if I remove the properties (using the small trash button or leaving them empty), the manager will restore them. (My version: Xamarin.Android SDK 10.2.0.100)
But I've found another solution:
Open Android Device Manager from Visual Studio.
While your device is powered off, click the "..." in the top right corner
Select "Show in explorer"
Edit the file "config.ini"
Remove the skin.name and skin.path properties and save file
Start the device!
Open Android Device Manager from Visual Studio.
While your Device is powered off Click Edit
Find the property skinname and clear the value (leave empty)
Find the property skinpath and clear the value (leave empty)
Click Save & Start Device.
Worked for me
Show in Explorer now called : Reveal in Explorer
And you can just add // before skin for example:
//skin.name=pixel_xl
Open Android Studio -> Tools -> AVD Manager -> Pencil Icon next to Your Virtual Device -> Uncheck 'Show device frame'
I've moved Project and Source control tool windows to second monitor. Now, when I'm trying to delete file or rename or smth else with keyboard nothing happens. I have to use context menu. I'm using AS 3.1.2 on Mac.
How to fix it ?
Thank you.
Just switch tool windows from Floating Mode to Windowed Mode :)
I am using
Android studio 2.1.1 Build #AI-143.2821654 build on April 28, 2016.
JRE: 1.8.0_77-b03 x86_64
OS X El Capitan 10.11.3
I have met Android studio mouse problem a lot of times recently. I cannot use mouse to click anything in Android studio. All I can do is to use keyboard and shortcuts.
And only solution I found is to restart my whole computer. I have noticed that there is problem in other version of Android studio. So my question is that how can I deal with it?
I found that sometime I can reproduce this problem after I middle click the Editor Tab to close tab.
Just had this issue this morning. Android Studio wasn't responding to mouse click events. The odd thing was that it was responding to mouse position (tooltips, hover effects).
I updated to the newest version of Android Studio using Android Studio > Check for Updates and navigated the dialog menu with tab and spacebar. This did not solve the issue, but is probably worthwhile to try.
I'm not 100% certain what solved it, but I started pressing other buttons on my mouse (right-click, middle click, etc). Eventually it started accepting my left-click input again.
It happened to me with Intellij IDEA, when a dialog window has been opened by the IDE, but for some reason it is hidden behind the main window. You may try to find if there is any open dialog and close it.
I had the same issue on my Android Studio (4.1.1) on my MacBook Pro (macOS 11.1). For me, I just restarted my MacBook and the mouse click started working on Android Studio.
Not sure what caused it.
The mouse clicks thing and closing the android studio from task manager and open again did not help for me. im not sure why but CTRL+ALT+DELETE and going back to desktop fixed the problem.
Here is how I fixed this issue:
Use keyboard arrows and tab key to navigate to google assistant
Press enter to launch it
type and search "Power Menu : Software Power Bu"
navigate to install the app in results from playstore
Open the app after install and accept & set permissions
Open Power Menu now And you will get Android Power Options
Navigate to "Restart" and restart device
Viola!!! Now Emulator clicks works
In my case it happened, because one of the plugins started crashing in the loop, somehow disabling mouse click handlers.
Verify logs
Log file location:
~/Library/Logs/Google/AndroidStudio2020.3/
Remove bad plugins
~/Library/Application Support/Google/AndroidStudio2021.3/plugins
I'm a newbie for Android Application Development, I just started off with a very basic app on Android Studio, firstly I launched Emulator from the AVD manager, the Emulator popped up with frame and when I unchecked "Device Frame" & launched again,
now my question is how do I get rid off the soft keypad(Dark Gray) on the right?
by the way I've tried this answer, but no luck so far any help/suggestions are much appreciated.
I would recommend, try upgrading android studio to 2.0+ (currently in preview), you'll find a smother and better emulator
Go to settings
Language and Keyboard
Uncheck "Android keyboard" and also check other stuff and uncheck those too
I installed Android Studio 0.8.2
I am not able to get it working with two monitors.
If I have the main application in the left monitor, I want to be able to have the other windows like Event Log,Messages, etc.. docked together in the right monitor.
I can get the windows over to the right, but only if I check floating on the window. And when I do get the window over there to the right, when I click anywhere back on the left monitor, the windows in the right monitor disappear.
I am also not able to figure out how to dock multiple windows together in the right monitor.
I was able to do all of this very easily with Eclipse.
Should I just go back to Eclipse?
Have a look at the official documentation for Tool Windows.
In particular, you may want to refer to the Viewing Modes's Fixed / floating mode section on how to disable transparency for floating windows. Tool windows should not disappear when they lose focus, but they can become semi-transparent.
Additionally, you can have a read through this article which provides a lot of useful information for Eclipse users when switching to IntelliJ IDEA / Android Studio.
If you intent to have dual monitors run android studio.
Open the main screen of AS in your primary monitor.
Select the bar which you want to drag to secondary monitor.
Hit Right click and you should get the following options: Floating Mode, Docked Mode etc..
Select Windowed Mode & you should have a your desired in windows mode
Drag the window to secondary monitor.
Drag the debug window to another monitor, maximize and select Pinned from the settings (gear button top right).
So Pinned mode and Floating mode should be enabled.
With 3.5.0
Just drag the editor tab to the new monitor.
It should turn into a window.
Then you have the main window that holds the docked tool window(s) and a separate editor window.
For Android Studio 3.4.2
Click Window/Active Tool Window/Floating Mode
Now you can drag windows to the second monitor.