as already told in the title, I have an issue regarding the preview tool of Android Studio.
As I install the program, all works fine. I can create layouts and previewing them without any trouble. The problem comes when I restart my computer. Every time, the preview tool disappears (grey unselectable menu option and no other buttons to activate it around) and I can't manage to make it work again, unless I re-download Android Studio and I re-update the SDK. It's really annoying, because it's difficult to project a layout without restarting the computer, looking at what you are doing or loading it every time on the phone.
I've attached a screenshot, can anyone help me? Does anyone know a solution?
as you can see, there is no preview and no button to activate it
What about clicking on the design tab at the bottom of the editor ?
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I am using android jetpack compose and wrote some code that is being displayed in the preview section of android studio, but when I run the project and install the app in mobile then full content is not being displayed, only some little content is being displayed that is of previous code, but when I changed the code, then changes is being displayed in preview, but not in mobile. I searched for it but did not get any solution that why changes are not being displayed on mobile. Any help would be appreciated great!
Okay, I'm not sure exactly what you're dealing with, but I had a similar issue where the app doensn't show anything on both the device and emulator and this is what worked for me.
Running it from the preview solves it for me. Once you have a connected device, hitting the little run image(with a green play icon) on the top right corner of the preview pane will launch on the device or emulator. If you can't see this icon, scroll the preview pane all the way to the right.
However, to run your app using the normal run button on android studio, you need to make sure that your setContent{ } block inside onCreate is calling your Composable functions you declared earlier. This was the missing link for me as well.
i have a problem with android studio rendering things strangely, it only happens with the interactive stuff like buttons. how do i fix this? i do not understand what is happening! it can render buttons but not radio buttons, toolbars, check boxes, sliders etc.. what is going on? it works fine when i install it on a 'real' device (android phone) and on emulators
One way to do it is changing the display API by clicking and changing the API.
Another solution is to go to File>Invalidate Caches/Restart. This usually helps a lot of people.
How can i solve this problem where the interface jumps all over the place?
This happens on Android Studio 1.5.1 (based on IntelliJ), but not on Java IntelliJ IDEA, which is weird.
Update:
It doesn't happen continuously, usually after a few minutes in the program.
A full reinstall and restoring default layout is not solving the problem.
However when resizing the window or when dragging the window outside the visible area of the screen, the layout goes back to normal and mostly when the mouse is moved the same issue appears again.
Update 2:
Since one of my 2 boot SSD's (in RAID0) gave up on life, I was forced to reinstall Windows and so lost all the programs on the C drive... On this new Windows install the interface issue with Android Studio is gone, so the problem was probably a wrong config file or a problem with Java.
I think you can reinstall it.Also you can click shift+F12 first.
Android Studio IDE breaking GUI issue image at - http://imgur.com/dLxz0DU
My Android Studio is showing one or more preview windows generated at the position of the cursor in the Code Editor window. This preview overlays the original work behind it and pretty much renders my entire IDE useless or near useless. Although the preview will disappear upon mousing over portions of it, only to reappear seconds later. Is there some auto-preview window option that might be turned on by default that I have missed entirely?
I apologize if this has been asked before - I had not been able to find the answer previously and this has completely halted my development.
UPDATE: Restarting Android Studio, restarting my machine, and re-installing Android Studio all result in the same issue.
Check enable: File > Power Save Mode
Hope this helps
I am trying to write an application with Mono for Android. In an attempt to do this, I'm using the default template in monodevelop. I can successfully compile and run the application. When I run the application, it looks similar to the one shown here: http://docs.xamarin.com/android/getting_started/hello_world
There are two oddities in my version though:
The button is red
I can't seem to actually click the button. When I use my computers mouse, it acts like it won't click the button. This is not limited to the application either. If I try to click the home or search button in the emulator itself, I noticed that nothing happens either. Its like the emulator is not responding to my mouse.
As someone new to working with Android, can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm using MAC OS X with Lion installed. I'm assuming that I have the SDK and Java SDK installed properly considering the app compiles and when I press "play" I can load the app in the emulator. I just can't figure out why I can't actually click the button. So bizarre.
Any ideas?
The title of this question is pretty misleading, since you're saying that the emulator is not very responsive even outside the Mono for Android application. The problem here is with the emulator itself. The one thing I would recommend trying with respect to Mono for Android is to try starting the application without debugging, as debugging will add extra overhead to running the app.
The Android emulator is notoriously slow, since it is fully emulating the ARM instruction set in software. That said, there are certain things you can do in order to squeeze some more speed out of it. One thing that I've seen make a big difference is to decrease the screen size of the emulator image. Setting this to a small screen size (such as QVGA) can make a big difference. You can manage these settings through Android's AVD Manager.