Android studio IDE for android applications development offers a wide range of tools, shortcuts and live templates to increase the productivity of the developers. Here I enlist some of those which would come handy and you would love it while you use it :
Shortcuts
| Ctrl + P | To see parameters of underlying method.
When your cursor is on some method , you can see what parameters the method requires as input |
| Ctrl + Shift + N or Command + Shift + O (mac) | You can search any file with its name |
| Ctrl+f4 or Command + W (Mac) | To close the current open file |
| Ctrl+alt+O | To Optimize Imports |
| Shift+Shift | To search every where in the project |
| Ctrl+Shift+f | To find in path |
| Alt + right / Alt + left | To switch tabs in the editor |
| F1 | To quickly see the documentation of current class |
| Command + 1 | Open Project View |
| Command+Shift+A | To find any action |
Live Templates :
Studio has some built-in templates created for you which makes your life a bit easier.
It also provides the power of creating custom templates to you also . Here I enlist some of predefined templates :
- fori + tab
it will print the for loop for you with using i as the iterator.
- logm + tab
it will print the log.d statement with the input parameters of the method printed
- logr + tab
it will print log.d statement with the return parameter of the method printed
- logt + tab
in class variables scope it will define a variable TAG with class name as the value for it