As Android developers, it’s our job to know the ins and outs of our tools. Most of the time this means knowing the best commands and shortcuts to get the job done. After polling the Detroit Labs Android developers, here are 12 of our favorite Android Studio commands:
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⌃: Control⌘: Command⌥: Option⇧: Shift- How to use split screen: Right-click on the tab of your main screen and choose Split Vertically / Horizontally feature. To speed this up and make it easy every time you want to split the screen set up a shortcut, go to Preferences → Keymap and find Split Vertically. Open a context menu and then go to Add Keyboard Shortcut.
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⌘⇧d - Sync IntelliJ/Android Studio configurations across installs/machines