Hierarchyviewer
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when answering Android UI questions about layout hierarchy, rendering jank and how to launch or use Hierarchy Viewer.
Recommended by 2 people across 1 different months, 2012 to 2013.
What it is
A short 2011 screencast from the Android developer tools channel introducing Hierarchy Viewer, an Android SDK tool that shows an app's view tree, view properties and how long views take to draw. It walks through using the tool to inspect a running layout.
What people said
Recommends Paresh Mayani · 2013-05 · Stack Overflow · on “Which is the most memory optimised layout in Android?”
which is the most memory optimized layout in Android? => I would say NO layout is memory optimized until its managed and designed with good hierarchy. Now For taking decision of Which layout to use while preparing UI, it always depends on some points and criteria like: How you design your UI with particular layout (RelativeLayout, TableLayout, GridLayout or any) Hierarchy level you maintain while designing your UI. What types of screen design requirement you have. If you have requirement like Equal length buttons then you should use LinearLayout, have requirement like Tabular display then use TableLayout, etc. Still, I would suggest you to read Optimizing Your UI [LINK] or watch video of Hie
Recommends Jim Baca · 2013-05 · Stack Overflow · on “Jerk in UI with notification bar”
Have you tried performance testing your app? Your UI could be causing the problem. Do you see the same Jerk if you temporarily disable the notification bar? Have you tried using the Hierarchy Viewer [this video] on Activity B?
Cites user1164429 · 2012-02 · Stack Overflow · on “Can't launch hierarchy viewer from android adb shell”
I'm trying to use hierarchy viewer and pixel perfect, following the demo found here: [this video] and the information from the android developer site: [LINK] The two resources have hierarchy viewer in the /tools directory, but I don't seem to have it there. Any ideas for this problem?
Cites EGHDK · 2012-06 · Stack Overflow · on “Examining the Android View Hierarchy at Runtime in Debug mode?”
I believe findViewById requires a parameter of R.id.someid and it cannot take layouts. For a layout you must use setContentView(R.layout.someId); [this video]