How to use Monitor (DDMS) tool to debug application

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Arthur Wang picture Arthur Wang · Feb 21, 2014 · Viewed 105.6k times · Source

I'm switching my development environment from Eclipse to Android Studio these days. And I really enjoy its autocompletion and many other features this IDE provide. However, I have some problem when doing debugging.

I hope to use Monitor tool which this IDE provided, self-included DDMS and very nice visual interface to track memory usage, thread condition and so on. But I can't find a way that this could support step by step using breakpoints I have to create (That red dot in editor)

I can only do step by step debug by not open this Monitor. Since when I try to use Monitor while the debugger is running, it will popup a window asking me to disconnect the ADB first. I also can't find a place to start the application from Monitor.

Is there a way to do step by step debug while using Monitor at the same time in Android Studio?

Answer

kgibilterra picture kgibilterra · Oct 13, 2014

Go to

Tools > Android > Android Device Monitor

in v0.8.6. That will pull up the DDMS eclipse perspective.

how to open

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