Android Studio Tips

List of tips for android studio

Features

Bookmarks

You know that you can create bookmarks to some file lines in Android Studio?

• Ctrl + Shift + 0: Create bookmark with 0.
• Ctrl + Shift + 1: Create bookmark with 1.
• Ctrl + 0: Go to bookmark 0.
• Cmd + F3: show all bookmarks.

Selection

Word selection (like Sublible cmd+d):

• Ctrl + g: select next word with same chars.
• Cmd + g: skip word.

Select per block:

• Alt + Up: going up
• Alt + Down: going down

Autocompletion

• Cmd + space: normal autocompletion
• Cmd + Shift + space: smart autocompletion (just objects with same type for ex)

Setup

RAM

In Android Studio search Help/Edit Custom VM Options and put:

-XX:MaxPermSize=8G
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=2G
-server

# heap - default value is 256m
-Xms4G

# Max size memory allocation pool - default value is 1280m
-Xmx4G

# defaul max value is 350m 
-XX:MetaspaceSize=4G

# use more memory but fast application.
-XX:-UseCompressedOops