How to open Android documentation and code samples in Android Studio

Question

I downloaded all the documentation using the help of the SDK manager. But how can I open this documentation and sample code in Android Studio after downloading?

Answer 1

First you need to make sure the documentation is added in Android Studio.

Go to File Project Structure . Under the Platform Settings heading, add or select Android Platform . Go to the Documentation Paths tab and make sure that the path to the documenation SDK folder is added there - it should be [SDK]\docs\reference , where [SDK] is the full path to your SDK installation. If not, add it manually.

Once this is done, use Ctrl + F1 while your cursor is on the element for which you want to display help.

Samples have not yet been ported to Android Studio, but I'm sure Google will come up to it at some point. Now follow the instructions in the androidika comments (you will need a copy of Eclipse).

Answer 2

According to Android Studio tips and tricks, you can press Ctrl+Q to show documents for the selected API for Windows or F1 for Mac.

For samples, you can use eclipse to export to Android Studio.

Answer 3

I tried to find this parameter in the latest build of Android-studio, and having spent a lot of time, I finally found out that now the ideal automatically finds documentation that can be opened using shift + f1 on the method.

Answer 4

In Android Studio, you need to download the javadoc dependency, which is part of sdk.

If you include documentation that appears while writing code in Android studio, go to

File-> Settings-> Editor-> General-> Other

and

select (check box). Show the Quick documentation on moving the mouse, after a while you will be annoyed because it will automatically exit when you write the code.

So, I think we should go for alternative ways using Ctrl + Q (for Ubuntu, at least I'm not sure about other environments). That way, when you feel the help, you can simply use a simple command.

Answer 5

Now, as soon as you import the project into Android studio, it will automatically display the documents. But on hover, you want to expand it.

The page for viewing documents was simply changed very briefly, as indicated above, it seems that the documents are not used. But when I carefully move the mouse to the bottom of the hover page, I can resize it.