Did you know about these features in Android Studio?
Android Studio is really great with lots of amazing features which we don’t usually know of, Unless we’re really curious. In this article let’s talk about some features which can ease the pain that we get when it takes forever to build.
Why do i leave Android Studio?
- To View/Create Pull Request
- To View formatted JSON
- Create Gist or Create Repository
- Do some scrap work
Above were some cases that used to force me to leave Android Studio and go to Chrome to do above tasks but not anymore.
Tl;DR
- When i say Search i mean searching everywhere in Project using (Command + Shift + A) to search.
- PR stands for Pull Request
View Pull Requests
Search “View Pull Request” and you’ll get all the open PRs. You can also see the closed Pull request by changing “state:open” to “state:close”. Right now we can’t submit review changes from here but otherwise it’s really cool.
Create Pull Request
To raise a PR from your feature branch to Base branch go to your feature branch and Search “Create Pull Request” and you’ll get a Dialog Like Below
Here Title by default is your current branch name which you can change. Base branch can also be changed from dropdown to any branch.
View formatted JSON in Android Studio
Create a scratch.json file then paste the json strings and press (Command + option + L) to format and voila it’s done. To know about Scratch files keep reading.
Create Gist or Create Repository
Search “Create Gist” to create a gist and similarly type “Create Repository” from within Android Studio to create Repos and follow the instructions.
Scratch Files in Android Studio (Doing some scrap work)
To create a scratch file press (Command + Shift + N) and you’ll get a dialog like below.
Now select a language whose file you want to create. P.S. Above we created a “scratch.json” to format JSON.
Scratch files are super useful feature because it let’s you run code in isolation. Suppose you wan to run some kotlin code, Create a kotlin scratch file write code and run.
Here are some references of few more useful features
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