Code formatting shortcuts in Android Studio for Operation Systems

Bhavesh Hirpara picture Bhavesh Hirpara · May 16, 2013 · Viewed 579.9k times · Source

I have started developing with Android Studio. In Eclipse I was using Ctrl + Shift + F, but in Android Studio it does not work. It will be different.

How can I jump to any method in a .java file? I was using Ctrl + O in Eclipse.

Is it available? What is the shortcut for code formatting?

Answer

Pankaj Kumar picture Pankaj Kumar · May 16, 2013

Windows: Ctrl + Alt + L

Linux: Ctrl + Shift + Alt + L

macOS: Option + Command + L

Reference: Key Commands and here are all of the commands for Windows/ Linux users and for Mac users.


As Rohit faced a problem in Ubuntu with the format code shortcut, this is due to the Ctrl + Alt + L key being used to lock the screen in Ubuntu.

I found that Ubuntu handles this keyboard shortcut first. So you should bind the Ctrl + Alt + L keyboard shortcut to something else so that it doesn't conflict with Ubuntu.

Steps

  1. Go to System ToolsSystem SettingsKeyboardShortcuts tab → SystemLock Screen.

  2. Select the row New Accelerator..., then press any special key with the Alpha key (e.g. Shift + L). You should've successfully changed the keyboard shortcut.

  3. Check if the keyboard shortcut now works in Android Studio.

Alternative method

Ctrl + Alt + Shift + L (to show a dialog)


You can also use Eclipse shortcuts.

  • Windows and Linux: Go to menu FileSettingsKeymap
  • macOS: Go to menu PreferencesKeymap and choose Eclipse from the drop-down menu.

Using MenuBar

  • Select code which you want to reformat
  • Click on Code in the menu bar and select Reformat Code as shown in the image below:

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In Android studio 3.5, there is problem with rearranging the xml code, it also rearrange the views as well, so need to use these settings first.

Settings -> Editor -> Code Style -> XML-> Set From -> Predefined Style > Android.