Code formatting shortcuts in Android Studio for Operation Systems

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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

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Try this    On Windows do Ctrl   Alt   L On Linux do Ctrl   Shift   Alt   L for dialog to open and then reformat   On Mac do CMD   Alt   L   Note  Here many answers for Linux is just Ctrl   Alt   L        which is wrong  In Linux  doing Ctrl   Alt   L locks the system

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Ctrl Alt L might conflict with Lock Screen shortcut in Ubuntu  In such case you can change the keyboard shortcut for Reformatting Code as follows   File-  Settings-  IDE Settings-  Keymap  Search for Reformat Code and change the keyboard shortcut

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Check Keyboard Commands given in the Android Studio Tips  amp  Trick documentation

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You can also use Eclipse s keyboard shortcuts  just go to menu Preferences   keymap and choose Eclipse from the dropdown menu     The actual path is  menu File   Settings   Keymap  under IDE settings

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The shortcut that worked for me is   SHIFT ALT CMD L  You can optimize imports to remove the ones you don t use  and auto import the new classes

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For formatting code in Android Studio on Linux you could instead use Ctrl   Alt   Super   L  You could use this and avoid having to change the system shortcut   Super key is the Windows icon key besides the Alt key

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Check this  Also you can change it as per your preference

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I have had an experience using Ctrl   Alt   L in Windows that this shortcut did not work at all because it was reserved by another software  running at the background  which I realized later   I decided to mention this issue as I thought it may be helpful

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It s Ctrl   Alt   L for Windows  For a complete list of keyboard shortcuts please take a look at the user manual  https   developer android com studio intro keyboard-shortcuts html

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Really  I went to this thread because of my Ubuntu locks screen after this shortcut Ctrl   Alt   L  So if you are have the same problem just go to the Settings - Keyboard - Shortcuts - System and change the default shortcut for the  Lock screen

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The best key where you can find all commands in Eclipse is Ctrl   Shift   L   By pressing this you can get all the commands in Eclipse    One important is Ctrl   Shift   O to import and un-import useless imports

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For code formatting in Android Studio    Ctrl   Alt   L  Windows Linux     Option   Cmd   L  Mac   The user can also use Eclipse s keyboard shortcuts  just go on menu Setting   Preferences   Keymap and choose Eclipse  or any one you like  from the dropdown menu

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You will have to apply all Eclipse shortcuts with Android Studio before using all those shortcuts   Procedure   Steps   Setting - gt  KeyMap - gt  Select Eclipse - gt  Apply - gt  OK   Now you can use all Eclipse shortcuts in Android Studio     Have some snapshots here

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If you are using the Dart plugin  go to Android Studio  menu File -  Settings  And search for  reformat code with   click  Reformat code with dartfmt  under the main menu     Click  Add keyboard Shortcut   Then press Ctrl   Alt   L and the shortcut should work  If Ctrl   Alt   L make the computer sleep suspend  change the shortcut in your system settings to something else  Otherwise  both shortcuts will collide

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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   Go to System Tools   System Settings   Keyboard   Shortcuts tab   System   Lock Screen  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  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 File   Settings   Keymap macOS  Go to menu Preferences   Keymap 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      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

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Just to add to  user2340612 answer to switch keymaps to Eclipse  the path for Android Studio 1 0 1 is   Menu File   Settings   Keymap  under the Editor option    Keymaps   Eclipse

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I think is clear that for code formatting in Android Studio the combination keys are   CTRL   ALT   L  Win  Linux  OPTION   CMD   L  Mac   However  we forgot to answer about the Jumping into the method  Well to go into any declaration implementation there three ways   Goto Declaration   CTRL   B or CTRL   CLICK  Win  Linux  CMD   B or CMD   CLICK  Mac    Goto Implementation  These commands show a list of all the classes interfaces that are implementing the selected class interface  On variables  it has the same effect as Goto Declaration   CTRL   ALT   B  Win  Linux  CMD   ALT   B  Mac    Goto Type Declaration  These shortcuts will go into the declaration of the    AnyClass    class   CTRL   SHIFT   B  Win  Linux  CTRL   SHIFT   B  Mac   Additionally  there is a shortcut for Goto the Super Class  This will open the parent of the current symbol  Pretty much the opposite of Goto Implementation  For overridden methods  it will open its parent implementation   CTRL   U  Win  Linux  CMD   U  Mac

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Just select the code and  on Windows do Ctrl   Alt   L  on Linux do Ctrl   Super   Alt   L  on Mac do CMD   Alt   L   This solution from junaidp

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You can use the following shortcut for code formatting   Ctrl Alt L

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For auto formatting your Java XML files in Android Studio  use following commands   As you are looking for a single point to go with your work as Eclipse did  there is no such built-in functionality in Android Studio  but it gives you the ability to do it through a macro  Follow these steps   In Android Studio  open any of your source code files   Press Ctrl   Alt   O This is used to find optimize unused import    If a dialog open select  Don t show it again  and hit Run   Go to Edit   Macros   Start Macro Recording   Press Ctrl   Alt   O   Press Ctrl   Alt   L  This formats your code   Shift Ctrl Alt L for Ubuntu    Press Ctrl   S  This saves your file    Go to Edit   Macros   Stop Macro Recording   Save this created macro with a name  for instance     Auto Formatting    Boom  you have now successfully created your macro  Now just add assign a shortcut to it   Open Preferences   Search in the left bar for Keymap   In the right hand pane  click in the search bar and type the name of your saved macro   Auto Formatting     Double click on your item  There might be two  it doesn   t matter which one you click on   Click Add Keyboard Shortcut   Set your keyboard shortcut to Ctrl   S   Finally  confirm overriding Ctrl   S to be your new macro

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For those who are wondering about the alignment issue inside bracket  JetBrains has this as in their issue tracking   Here is the answer       How do I align format code in Android Studio

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There are some shortcut keys for rearrange or reformat code in Android studio  Linux  Ctrl   Shift   Alt   L mac OS  Option   Command   L Windows  Ctrl   Alt   L

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Some times even I type Ctrl Alt L is not working in XML  so found this way to make it work      Go to Settings --  Editor --  Code Style --  Select Default --  Ok    For your reference see the screenshot

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In addition to auto-formatting that the other answers describe  another trick is to highlight the text that you want to indent and then press    Tab to increase the indent or  Shift Tab to decrease the indent      Check out the Keyboard Shortcut docs for more

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