Shortcuts — Android
to make things little easier and faster..
2 min readNov 17, 2023
Run/ Debug App
- Ctrl + R — Run
- Ctrl + D — Debug
- F7 — Step Into
- F8 — Step Over
- Opt + F8 — Evaluate Expressions While Debugging
- Cmd+Shift+F8 — View breakpoints
Search Efficiently
- Shift + Shift — Search everywhere
Cmd + Shift + O — Search by File-Name
Cmd + Shift + A — Search Actions
Cmd + O — Search by Class-Name
Cmd + Opt + O — Search by Symbol-Name (method/ field name) - Cmd + E — Recently opened files
Cmd + Shift + E — Recently visited locations - Cmd + F — searches with the current file
Cmd + Shift + F — lets you search in the path
Cursor Navigation
- Cmd + [ or ] — Forward/ Back through cursor position history
Cmd + Shift + Backspace — Return to the Last Edited Line - Cmd + ← or → — Move Cursor to the Start or End of Line
Ctrl + Shift + ↑ — Move a Line Up or Down - Cmd + L — Go To Line Number
Edit Code
- Opt + Backspace — Delete Word
- Cmd + D or Backspace — Delete Line
- Cmd + Shift + U — Toggle Case
- Cmd + D — Duplicate current line
- Cmd + / — Comment Out Code
Reformat Code
- Cmd + Opt + M — Extract Method
- Cmd + Opt + T — Enclose Statements
- Cmd + Opt + L — Reformat Code
- Shift + F6 — Refactor/rename
- Ctrl + Opt + O — Optimizing imports
View More
- Cmd + P — Show Parameters
- Ctrl + J — Quick Documentation
- Cmd + Click or Cmd + B — Go to Declaration
Suggestions
- Cmd + Space — Code Completion
- Opt + Enter — Apply Suggestions
- Cmd + J — Live Template
Code Generation
- Cmd + N — Lists out all the options available
- Cmd + O — Shows methods you can override
Multi Cursors
- Hold the Opt button and make selections
Others
- Cmd + Shift + V — Clipboard History
- Cmd + + or -— Collapse/Expand Code Blocks
Tool windows
- Cmd + 1 — Project
- Cmd + 6 — Logcat
- Cmd + Shift + F12 —Hide All Tool Windows
Version control/local history
- Cmd + 9 — Version Control
- Cmd + 0 — Version Control Commit View
- Ctrl + V — VCS Options
- Opt + Shift + C — View recent changes
