Hello everyone. I have enabled experimental ui in...

# android-studio

[Tapan Desai]

Hello everyone.

I have enabled experimental ui in Android Studio Flamingo Beta 1.
While the new ui is really great, I am facing one issue here.

Whenever I want to attach a debugger to a process, I have to do this (see attached screenshots)

Is there a way to enable toolbar like in old ui? I have already tried View: Show Main Toolbar (4th option is 1st screenshot), but that didn’t help

Thanks in advance!

[Chris Sinco [G]]

https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CRDCFF3RC/p1674684546543999?thread_ts=1674653393.182739&cid=CRDCFF3RC

[Tapan Desai]

@Chris Sinco [G] Just out of curiosity. Which IDE you use to develop the IDE for Android Developer? Or you do it on vim? 😄

[Chris Sinco [G]]

To develop Android Studio? We use IntelliJ

[Tapan Desai]

Is there a plan to integrate something like this in Android Studio in future?

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/13121-http-client

[Chris Sinco [G]]

Unlikely. That would be more something that IntelliJ would do since it’s not as Android specific

[Chris Sinco [G]]

We do have some networking tools for Android though in the Network Inspector, that helps debug and intercept network traffic in your app: https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/features#network-inspector

[Tapan Desai]

That plugin is from JetBrains itself, but it only works with Intellij Ultimate and other paid IDEs. So it won’t work in Android Studio

[Tapan Desai]

I am aware about Network Inspector, and we do use it frequently.

My use case here is, if we have something like that in AS, we won’t have to switch to Postman frequently when integrating new APIs or debugging payload related issues

[Tapan Desai]

But maybe I am getting too greedy here 😅

[Chris Sinco [G]]

Gotcha - apologies I didn’t see that detail on Ultimate. It’s up to JetBrains to make it available for free unfortunately, i.e. in Community, Android Studio. As for Android Studio, I’m not aware functionality like this is on our roadmap or a priority, so it’s best to file a feature request and then we’ll track the upvotes to help us prioritize.

[Tapan Desai]

Got it. Thanks

[Marcin Wisniowski]

In the more general case, it would be great if you could input an IntelliJ license key into Android Studio to make it accept paid plugins. It’s a shame I can’t use Ultimate-exclusive plugins in Android Studio if I’m already paying for Idea Ultimate anyway. Android Studio is always stuck in free/community mode, even though I’m a paying user.