When doing Android development in Eclipse and running an application, my perspective stays in 'Java' but the LogCat view still opens in the sidebar (the one on the right where the Outline view is).
I don't want LogCat to open, it's annoying. If I want to look at it I can switch perspectives to DDMS.
Go to the Android > LogCat section of Eclipse's Prefereneces window and try adjusting settings in there:
In particular, the bottom two checkboxes look promising for adjusting this behavior.
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I've recently upgraded to Android Studio 3.3.1 and I have noticed the documentation panel now appears whenever I start typing something or do ctrl-space completion. I can't find a way to stop it doing this; I've undocked it, unpinned it, and specified "remove from sidebar" but it just keeps coming back.
What is the point of "remove from sidebar" if it just reinserts itself as soon as I start typing in the editor?
This would be slightly less annoying if it didn't frequently lock up AS while it attempts to get documentation when I'm editing XML files. It's really annoying and driving me mad.
In case anyone else has this trouble, I found the best solution was to grab the left hand edge of the panel and close it right up against the right hand side of the main window, effectively hiding it.
Untick this, I occasionally enable it via a keyboard shortcut (I think) and the panel pops open when I hover over a method or class.
In Settings > Editor > Code Editing > Quick Documentation
I am using Android Studio on Ubuntu 16.04. The AVD emulator starts fine, and I can install apks on it. However, if I change to a different workspace, minimise the emulator, or even click on another window, backrounding the emulator, it appears to minimise(only visible in the task bar), and from then on, it will not maximise again. Clicking on it in the bottom task bar makes it appear for a split second before minimising again. I haven't had this problem with any other window. Anyone know how to fix it?
So far I have tried:
Setting the emulator window to always stay on top
answer to install various libs that have helped people with similar AVD problems
Starting the emulator from the command line
For Windows use:
If a window won’t maximize, press Shift+Ctrl and then right-click its icon on the taskbar and select Restore or Maximize, instead of double-clicking on the icon.
I have found a workaround. By clicking into the window menu from the very top left of the emulator window, I set the emulator to both 'always be on bottom' AND always appear in all workspaces. This way, switching workspaces doesn't have any effect on the emulator, and keeping it to the bottom layer means I can open other programs in other workspaces and not have the emulator in the way. I just can't ever minimise it. It's not ideal, but at least I can do my work!
In the bottom left corner of Android studio, there is a squared icon that allows you to see all Panles. it includes also Emulator. By selecting it, I was able to have my Emulator back on screen (view mode: float).
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.
I'm using Android Studio 0.7 and while i normally find it quite pleasant to work with, its logcat support is intermittent at best. Now i've somehow gotten myself into a bit of an interface conundrum. Something i did inadvertently with the Android DDMS window at the bottom has meant that "Devices" and "logcat", which are normally in a two-paned window together (e.g. "Devices | logcat"), have become separate. As a result i can no longer view the filter box and the logcat output without switching panes, which as you can imagine is a real PAIN! (pun unintended but welcomed)
Here are some screenshots - at the top you see two shots of the two panes in their current separated form in v0.7, and below you see what it normally looks like (from v0.8). It's like i've somehow lost the whole header for the individual panes...
I've looked at all the buttons nearby, looked through all the settings, and googled as best i can, and i just can't figure it out. Can anybody help me? At the moment i can only hope that google fixes their developer L preview so i can actually start using 0.8 but who knows how long that will be....
In Intellij IDEA 13.1.5 for Mac, press Fn in keyboard, drag 'Devices' window to 'logcat' window, done!
Click and drag the part I highlighted in Red. When it becomes a separate box, just close it by clicking on the X on the top right.
I recently switched my developing platfrom from win7 to ubuntu 11.04. Installation was pretty straight forward however I started notice things are different. First, the Android SDK and AVD Manager, when launched from Eclipse, does NOT have the minimze button. If I right click on the top bar, the minimize option is disabled. What's going on there? Although I can easily moved to another desktop so it doesn't interfere with coding, but it's annoying cause every time I click on the eclipse at the open window manager at the bottom of the screen, it automatically takes me to the SDK manager thinking it's the top most layer of eclipse. Any idea why that is?
Since I am on the top, also in eclipse, the bottom window segments (console, javadoc, etc) is also missing minimize button. I can minimize by double clicking the title tab of the editor, but for crying out loud, where is the minimize button for the bottom window segments. It has close, maximize, but no minimize. These are the moments that makes windows seems more superior than linux. Thoughts?
You can just close it or if for some special reason you need it open just run /opt/android-sdk/tools/android (or whatever your path is) from your command line and not from Eclipse.