Sometimes a key combination doesn’t do what you’d expect it to do. Remap / Create Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts Place your cursor there, and click Alt + Enter and follow the menu prompts to import the required class. If Android Studio can’t figure out which import you need (which it has got much better at doing recently), it will turn the text red. When typing away, you may need an import that you haven’t included yet. It’s also very helpful in auto-generating the necessary imports you need.

A small menu will pop up with what you can do. To see what it can do, put your cursor at different places, or highlight words or lines, and press the key combination. The keyboard shortcut Alt + Enter does a lot and is extremely useful. Move cursor to a new line, no matter where you are in the current line – find usages of that variable / method / class – navigate to that variable’s / method’s / class’s declaration Hold shift and click on a tab to close it Move the current line / method up / down, depending on where your cursor is Organize your imports and remove unused ones View the documentation for the highlighted method / variable / class / etc. Press this shortcut when your cursor is between the parentheses of a method call to see what parameters are required and of what type.

‘Match case’ and ‘regex’ options available. With “Super Find” above, “Super Replace.” Find and replace something throughout all of the project’s files. Search for something throughout all of the project’s files. Without further ado, and in no particular order… Keyboard Shortcut These are the keyboard shortcuts that I use all the time in development. Some I looked up, some I discovered entirely by accident by pressing the wrong keys trying to do something else! We’ve all been there, right? Right?! When working with Android Studio, I’ve found quite a few non-obvious ones that have really increased my productivity. Keyboard shortcuts are the best way to get the job done faster.

Keyboard shortcut for redo vs undo