47 Very Useful Android Studio Shortcuts for Mac users
Following up with our previous article on 50 shortcuts for Windows and Linux, here we have compiled a list of useful shortcuts for Android Studio developers who use Mac system.
Top Android mobile app developers rely on shortcuts to fastrack their their development process.
We hope the following shortcuts will come in handy during your development process.
Navigating and searching within Android Studio
Press Shift twice : Search everything (including code and menus)
Cmd + Shift + up/down : To move the code above and below
Cmd + F : Find
Cmd + R : Find and Replace
Cmd + N : Find Class
Cmd + Shift + O : Find file (instead of class)
Cmd + Option + O : Find the method in a class
Cmd + F12 : Open file structure pop-up
Control + Right/Left Arrow : Navigate between open editor tabs
Shift + F4 : Open current editor tab in new window
Cmd + E : Recently opened files pop-up
Cmd + Shift + E : Recently edited files pop-up
Cmd + Shift + Backspace : Go to last edit location
Fn + Shift + F2 : Jump b/w highlighted syntax errors
Ctrl + H : To see the inheritance hierarchy for a selected class, press Ctrl+H. You can also invoke the hierarchy view right from the editor to see the hierarchy for the currently edited class.
Writing code
Cmd + Option + T : Surround with (if…else / try…catch / etc.)
Cmd + Backspace : Delete line at caret
Cmd + minus/plus : Collapse/expand current code block
Cmd + Shift + minus/plus : Collapse/expand all code blocks
Cmd + D : Duplicate current line or selection
Control + Space : Basic code completion
Control + Shift + Space : Smart code completion (filters the list of methods and variables by expected type)
Control + J : Quick documentation lookup
Cmd + P : Show parameters for selected method
F3 : Toggle bookmark
Option + F3 : Toggle bookmark with mnemonic
Cmd + / : Comment/uncomment with line comment
Option + Up : Select successively increasing code blocks
Cmd + Shift + V : Choose and insert recent clipboard contents into the text
Option + Delete : Delete to end of word
Cmd + Shift + Enter : Complete a current statement such as if, do-while, try-catch, return (or a method call) into a syntactically correct construct (e.g. add curly braces)
Option + Enter : Project quick fix (show intention actions and quick fixes)
Cmd + Option + L : Reformat code
Cmd + C : If nothing is selected in the editor, and you press Ctrl+C, then the whole line at caret is copied to the clipboard.
Option + Drag : You can easily make column selection by dragging your mouse pointer while keeping the Alt key pressed.
When the cursor is placed on a particular method, use the following shortcuts
Control + J : Would show the Documentation
Cmd + P : Would show the Parameter info
Cmd + B : Would be used to navigate
Build and run
Cmd + F9 : Build
Control + R : Build and run
Control + Cmd + R : Apply changes (with Instant Run)
Debugging
Alt + Click : To quickly evaluate the value of any expression while debugging the program, hold Alt and click this expression to see its value and calculate it, call a method, etc.
Refactoring
Shift + F6 : Rename
Testing
Cmd + Enter : Android Studio helps create test cases directly from class declaration. With the caret at the class name in the editor, press Alt+Enter, and choose Create Test from the suggestion list.
General
Cmd + Backquote (~) : Apply another code style/coloring scheme or keymap right from the editor
Cmd + Click : A tab in the editor to navigate to any part of the file path. Select the necessary element in the drop-down, and the corresponding file path opens in an external browser.
To split vertically : Click on the file , right click on the file and press “split vertically” to split the files in to two panes
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