For example I have two perspectives, one for debugging, and one for coding.
In the coding area I obviously don't want views for debugging (LogCat from ADT for example).
Jet when some plugin, feature or view feels it has something important to say, it just shows up on whatever perspective I am. Eclipse just adds a view, and brings it to top everytime, which is getting quite annoying.
How do I disable this?
You can configure the LogCat behavior from the Eclipse Preferences window (e.g., Window > Preferences on Windows and Linux). Go into Android > LogCat and toggle values like "Switch perspective" and "Display logcat view...".
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I have disabled everything there is to disable in the gutter, yet its this big:
I don't want the gutter at all. It's ugly and not useful for me.
Halp!
Just in case for those who didn't know yet, you can set shortcut keys for "Main Menu > View > Active Editor > Show Gutter Icons" in 'keymap' in preference as you want. You can't disable it altogether, but at least can hide the area by each file. Currently I use Android Studio 3.5.3, but I believe you can do this in some earlier versions, too.
Apparently as of now there is no way to disable that portion of the IDE.
Debugging is an essential part of software development and there are not many people that would like to disable that in an IDE. Of for that matter even thought about that - it's not taking that much space anyway. You could probably put in a feature request for that.
I am new to Android Studio IDE. I was very accustomed to the Eclipse IDE and now everything seems hard to accomplish with Android Studio. One of the things which bothering me is the documentation auto popup in the settings. The popups are always overlapping the parameters info. which are important.
Does anybody know how to solve this or if it's possible at all to have the 2 options.
I've already tried changing the delays in the settings but the it's the same result.
Example image:
Go to File > Settings or do Ctrl+Alt+S
Under Editor > General
Uncheck Show quick documentation on mouse move
How can I remove the logcat window from the Java perspective permanently? Every time I get an error (that I'm expecting) it pops up the logcat window (even if i close it/remove it from the perspective) and shows the output. I only want this showing in the debug perspective. It's very annoying and makes iterative testing difficult when trying to fix known issues. I really don't need eclipse changing my focus to an error I've already seen a few dozen times.
I've tried going to "customize perspective" but I can only see options to add it, and even though it's not checked (and presumably not added) it still pops up.
Turn it off in Window -> Preferences -> Android -> Logcat -> Display logcat view when there are messages from an application in the workspace.
You can prevent Eclipse from automatically opening views like that based on which perspective you're in via your preferences, check the settings seen in the image below:
I have unchecked Monitor logcat for messages from applications in workspace instead of Display logcat view when there are messages from an application in the workspace
SDK version: 20.
I'm just getting started with eclipse and android development. One thing which is driving me crazy in eclipse is the problems panel with error/warning messages. It displays errors and warning from every project that I have added to eclipse. I only want to see feedback from the project (or ideally individual file) that I am currently working on).
For example, I have two android projects added to my eclipse workspace: HelloAndroid (a sample app) and SMSTest (an SMS2Toast example). Even with no files open, I see warning messages from both projects! Why is this!?! I shouldn't see any output unless I actually have a file open...or is this just the way eclipse works? Should I be using a different workspace for each project?
Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
This will get mostly what you want:
Open the "Problems" view (Shift-Alt-X-Q)
In the right hand corner there is a drop down arrow
Select "Configure contents"
Then pay attention to the "Scope" options
I also highly recommend in that same menu "Group by" -> Java problem type.
Right-click the unwanted projects and click "Close Project" you shouldn't get notifications from them at that point.
Other than that I'd recommend fixing most errors before moving away from them. If you're not prepared to complete various functions at any given time just put a stub in them that satisfies conditions with a quick //TODO: statement telling you to fix it later.
If you're talking about working on a page in general and the errors are combersome and annoying then try double-clicking on the tab for the file you're coding (above the code window) and it should become "fullscreen" hiding the other portions of eclipse.
As far as I know, this is the way eclipse works. It makes sense in that if you make a change in one file, and it causes a compilation error in another file that you don't have open you would still want to know about it.
You CAN configure which situations are considered WARN, and which are IGNORE in Preferences > Java > Compiler > Errors/Warnings.
Also, if you only want warnings from one project you can CLOSE the other project, which would keep you from having to reconfigure a new workspace for each.
I have two system that I've installed Eclipse (3.6) and the Android development tools (SDK, ADT). They both have the same versions. However, on one system, under the File -> New menu, there are Android specific items - New Android Project, New Android XML file. But on the other, those specific menu items are not there. Yes, I can get to the items by choosing File -> New -> Project, then in the dialog pick Android Project, but was wondering why I don't have the specific items.
I've tried reinstalling Eclipse and the Android items, but the menu items just don't match.
Anyone more familiar with Eclipse and it's add-ons like Android have any idea? (Both system do have the "Open Android AVD and SDK" item under the window menu, FWIW)
Thanks.
I was able to restore the missing items in File | New... quite easily by performing the following steps:
Switch to the Java perspective, either via the perspective switcher toolbar at the top right of the main Eclipse window, or via the Window | Open Perspective menu item.
Reset the perspective by either right-clicking on the Java perspective icon in the perspective switcher toolbar, or by clicking Window | Reset Perspective...
As to why they weren't there in the first place, the most likely cause would be that the ADT contributes various things to the Java perspective, and these changes don't take effect until the perspective is reset after installing the ADT. As an Eclipse plug-in developer I learned it the hard way, that changes to perspectives don't get picked up unless you explicitly reset them.
Yes, seems this menu has a habit of disappearing, some sort of bug in Eclipse perspectives changing themselves.
Fix: In Eclipse click the Window menu and then "Customise Perspective". In the Customise Perspective dialog click the "Command Groups Availability" and then tick the "Android SDK and AVD Manager". Done.
Wouldn't it appear on the menu after you create the first Android project ?
When Resetting Perspective and neither Customize Perspective does`t work, you can delete config file responsible for this.
Just delete file workingsets.xml (resp. workbench.xml) in...\workspace.metadata.plugins\org.eclipse.ui.workbench\
(Credit to Pilot_51 for showing this solution)