in my Eclipse installation I've lost the palette toolbar from where was possible to drag&drop widget on the Layout.
I'm currently opening layouts in Graphical Layout and can see everything (Structure browser, properties of widget) but no palette.
I've closed it for a mistake but now I'm no more able to open it again.
I tried to close and open Eclipse many times, I searched around in options but nothing.
What should I do? I'd like avoid to reinstall everything!
Thanks
You can try one of the following
1) Enlarge your Graphical Layout
2) Is your computer system language set to English? If not, switch it to English.
3) From the paleltte, click on the arrow pointing downwards and select "Refresh Preview"
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I just downloaded Android Studio, and while I was trying to familiarize myself with the setup, I accidentally closed the Component Tree. I'm at very beginner level, and in all of the results I've come across, I didn't understand or it didn't work for me. How do I find the Component Tree again?
Edit: Here's a screenshot:
If you mean the "Component Tree" of the XML preview, this can be collapsed & expanded alike all other sidebars; it might be at the bottom-left of the XML preview window, where "Palette" is. It just sometimes requires double-clicking, in order to expand that panel. I tried, but I didn't manage to hide or remove it; if it is really missing, the Android Studio installation might be broken (needs reinstall).
Try anyone of these ways to restore hidden or misplaced component tree window-
Try Windows > Editor tabs > Close all.
then open your activity.xml again in your design mode. (Worked for me)
press shift F12, it should restore your window to default view.(or just go to Windows > Restore default layout).
hover over the square icon in the bottom left corner and click on component tree.
I have been editing the stupid android studio layout for the last 3 hours, and I cant change the preview!
For some reason, android studio layout is stuck on wear square! I just want my layout to be a Nexus 6p, but when I click on that, instead of changing the layout editor phone, it just jumps to my layout-normal xml!
How can I change the phone shown on the layout editor? It is causing me way too much trouble
You can change the devices by pressing D from the keyboard into the Preview pane. Previous settings will be set to default when you will restart the studio.
Resize your layout by dragging the bottom-right corner of your layout to the far bottom right of your screen.
The "Device in Editor" drop-down will change to "Custom".
You should now be able to select any listed device.
I had a similar problem. Accidentally pressed "Force Refresh Layout" from the design toolbar (where you select design and blueprint) and it fixed the problem.
You might have made a different layout folder for watch and other screen resolution for device like layout, layout-large, layout-xlarge.
Try to check for your layout folder by cleaning and rebuilding project again.
I wanted to add Layout file in Android studio in my windows computer new-> xml-> Layout XML file. But the dialog box was bigger than my screen that I wasn't able to minimize it vertically so I can click finish. All the buttons like, cancel, Finish... were hidden behind my task bar. I worked around that by adding a resource file in my layout folder but I wanted to know if there is a setting to change that behavior.
This sounds weird. However you can do a tricky thing! :)
In your windows toolbar at the bottom, right click on a blank space, then you will have many options like:
Cascade windows
Show windows stacked
Show windows side by side
This will arrange all your windows. Try them.
I have recently started using Android Studio and cannot work out how to access the properties window.
The following screenshot was taken from Google and shows exactly what I'm trying to access denoted by the red rectangle around the properties window.
Can anyone please tell me how I can access this?
Switch to design view. Click "Design" tab at bottom-left work area.
In the new Android Studio Version 3.1.2, the name of the Propierties Windows is "Attributes".
Look at this picture:
Attributes basic view
And, if you want to see the complete attributes, simply click on "View all attributes":
Attributes full view
How to restore windows?:
restore windows
I had the same issue than found that the properties window was always there but I had to drag it out with my mouse. Just go to the far right vertical bar in Design mode then drag to the right when your mouse turns into horizontal arrows pointing away from each other. Hope this helps!
You can just click on the design tab on your screen (at the left bottom corner below your code text window) and just click on anything whose property you want to change
make sure you are in the '.xml' file
I accidentally deleted the properties side bar and Window-->restore deafult layout helped.
Follow the doc.
Instead of editing your view properties in XML, you can do so from the Properties window (on the right side of the Layout Editor). This window is available only when the design editor is open, so be sure you've selected the Design tab at the bottom of the window.
When you select a view, the Properties window shows the following, as indicated in figure 5:
View inspector with controls for width/height style, margins, and bias (available only for views in a ConstraintLayout). For more information, see Build a Responsive UI with ConstraintLayout.
This happens all the time, to my opinion Android team should see as an improvement opportunity, here is the solution, click on the settings (gear symbol) on the right make sure that the attached side is set to None. also -See screen shot-> 1,
You have three ways to see the fields, design mode, split mode and code mode. THE ONLY ONE THAT shows the Attribute bar is on the SPLIT MODE, click on the Attribute see screenshot->
if that does not work, you can go to Windows -> Restore default Layout
if that still does not work you can do File -> Manage IDE Settings -> Restore Default Settings.
if that still does not work you can go in file explorer and delete the .android studio folder in C\users[your user].Androidstudio#.#
Hope this helps someone out there...
I'm not sure what happened exactly, but when I started up eclipse, there are no widgets in the graphical layout palette, as in the folders show nothing in them. It has worked before. Is there any way to fix this?
Got the same problem, just enlarge your Graphical Layout and it works.
Switch your computer system language from your country language to English! The widget folders in palette cannot read your country language; only English.
This fixed it for me.
I experienced a similar problem, where some of the widgets such as TextView and EditText were missing from the paleltte.
Here is what I did - from the paleltte, click on the arrow pointing downwards and select "Refresh Preview", here is a picture of what I'm talking about:
right click on palette then select DOCK ON then select left
It will not show if there is not enough space on your screen fr some reason. You need to minimize a window to open up your working space and it will show.
The same thing happened to me.
After trying everything, I changed the theme of the project. And oddly, the widgets reappeared.
The themes can be changed in the top bar of the design window.