I need to find what method was called when I tap on something. The project is huge and find it by myself will take a good amount of time.
Is there any possible way to do that?
I'm using Android Studio and yeah I'm working with another person's project for the first time ever.
How I do this:
Let's say that the button has some text. Let's say, it is Login.
Go to the strings.xml, and find the text, matching the text on the button.
use Find Usages in Android Studio on the found string.
In layout XML file observe the button, which text is set to the Login string.
Use Find Usages on the ID of the button
Open the Java file, where the ID of the button is used (usually it is used in findViewById())
use Find Usages on the Button object which is found by id.
Find the setOnClickListener of that button.
see, what is called in that listener.
I'm not sure whether this somehow answers your questions, but at least I found "Analyzing Data Flow" very helpful in messed up projects.
Here's a nice article concerning the feature by Sebastiano Poggi.
Also a gif demostrating the feature in action:
It's also accessible through context menu:
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I want to add references to other elements inside javadoc. The javadoc should look similar to:
/**
* ...
* #my.tag SomeElement
*/
I want to reuse the existing Java editor inside Eclipse. Of course I can type above javadoc already, however I'd like to add some features:
Navigation: upon Ctrl-Click / F3 I want to navigate to the editor showing SomeElement
Auto-completion: Ctrl-Space should complete the text / show valid alternatives
Checking: I want to create a warning marker and underline the SomeElement if it cannot be found
I already figured out that I can do the auto-completion by using the extension point org.eclipse.jdt.ui.javaCompletionProposalComputer, though this seems to be little more complex than I had hoped, so I might be on the wrong track here?
For checking my elements I might be able to use org.eclipse.jdt.core.compilationParticipant, which can generate markers upon compilation which afaik happens with every save operation.
But how can I can manage the navigation feature? Any pointers are welcome!
For navigation you can provide a Hyperlink Detector. You'll want to look at how the Java Editor and its existing detectors are declared in the org.eclipse.jdt.ui plug-in to determine the correct target ID.
I would like to see visually how much space each box takes with as little effort/changes to the code as possible.
I would like to know if it's possible to just put a line around the outer margins of the View or ViewGroup object.
Since it's just for debugging and styling I would like to also quickly turn it off, so I do rather make the changes to my code in one place so it's easy and quick to undo. Is this a default option I am missing? Somehow I expect this feature to exist already.
Here someone asks a different but slightly related question with not a nice answer for my case.
Here someone gives an answer on how to outline one View.
Border for an Image view in Android?
Code-wise you could follow the answer to the first link you posted and create a drawable with the name "developer_borders" or something similar and apply it to every view you wish to have its borders visible.
To easily remove it afterwards, you can right-click the directory of your project and click Replace in Path.... For Text to find you want to search for android:background="#drawable/developer_borders and for Replace with don't use anything. This will find every occurrence of what you are searching and replace it with an empty string.
There might be an easier option. Some devices have quite powerful Developer Options. "Show layout bounds" is what you want but take a look at the rest while you are at it, some are pretty awesome.
I was wondering that the textbox itself identifies its type and when clicked inside textbox it gives the suggestion for that. For a instance i am creating a textbox for mobile no and when click inside the textbox it correctly detects it. Can anyone explain me how it was coded. It was browser feature or HTML feature?
Here is the Image explanation
This features of modern browsers is called auto-fill option, where the browser recognizes that you have performed a specific search before and suggests information that you have typed before. For sweepers, auto-fill saves a ton of time. When Roboform doesn't fill out a form for me, I usually only have to double-click in the text field and select the data I want from the drop-down list of options. This is particularly useful for daily sweepstakes that require codes.
When I first learned Java, I was using an IDE called "BlueJ." It had this feature called "Scope Highlighting" which made it very easy to read blocks of code. Now I've moved on from BlueJ and began using Eclipse. I'm currently in the process of customizing Eclipse to my liking and would like this Scope Highlighting feature inside Eclipse.
I've searched everywhere for an answer on how to do it but I cannot find any information pointing to a solution for doing it in Eclipse.
Here's a picture to demonstrate what Scope Highlighting looks like:
I think the best option for you is EditBox, a scope highlighting plugin for Eclipse:
http://editbox.sourceforge.net/
I'm afriad that closest you can get is Shift + Alt + arrow_up
It is selecting wider block of code. pressing this few times will give you very similar result to what you are searching for. I use it often.. it is useful, also for refactoring.
EDIT: As #j2emanue said: you can just double click the delimiter (like a bracket) and it will highlight the entire scope.
you can use Shift + Alt + arrow_up but many people dont realize you can just double click the delimiter (like a bracket) and it will highlight the entire scope. Try double clicking your if statements bracket for example and watch eclipse highlight the entire scope. It works with any delimiter. so you can use parenthesis as well.
as a side note: if your using intelliji checkout this plugin works great: https://github.com/izhangzhihao/intellij-rainbow-brackets#screenshots
This isn't exactly what you're after but you can put your cursor in a method and then click the Show Source Of Selected Element only button on the toolbar. Your editor gets reduced to just that method. Click again and your back to your entire file.
I doubt eclipse does have the same function as blue j.The best advise I can give you, is to change your theme to your liking which would enable you to easily select and highlight the block of code...and to customise your theme , go to http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/. ....
If you still have a problem, go to http://codejava.co.uk/contact.html and send your email.you can create a dummy one if want, then I will send you XML files I use for my eclipse themes.
can Bracketeer do this ? its an eclipse plug in ..
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/bracketeer-java-jdt#.UK6sY4fAdLc
Maybe you will also like the VSCode extension "Blockman". It highlights nested code blocks based on curly/square/round brackets, html/xml tags and Python/Yaml indentation. (I am the author of Blockman).
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https://i.ibb.co/31F0rm9/vscode-blockman-intro-leodevbro-extension3.png
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I searched for some answers, but came up empty, maybe I'm not wording my question correctly.
Basically I want a hyper link, except it has a java on click listener attached to it, instead of an html link. I have some paragraphs of text and certain words are highlighted, I want the user to be able to click those words and it executes a function.
Any thoughts or website tutorials? Thanks.
You should use the Linkify class to achieve what you want. Here is a full tutorial that will help you