Hierarchy Viewer

The Hierarchy Viewer allows you to debug and optimize your user interface. It provides a visual representation of the layout's View hierarchy (the Layout View) and a magnified inspector of the display (the Pixel Perfect View).

To start the Hierarchy Viewer, do one of the following:

• From Android Studio, choose Tools > Android > Android Device Monitor or click Android Device Monitor in the toolbar. Click Open Perspectives and select Hierarchy View.
• From the SDK tools/ directory, enter:

  monitor

For more information on how to use the Hierarchy Viewer, see Optimizing Your UI.

Note: The command line version of Hierarchy Viewer has been deprecated.

Hierarchy Viewer The Hierarchy Viewer allows you to debug and optimize your user interface. It provides a visual representation of the layout's View hierarchy (the Layout View) and a magnified inspector of the display (the Pixel Perfect View). To start the Hierarchy Viewer, do one of the following: From Android Studio, choose Tools > Android > Android Device Monitor or click Android Device Monitor in the toolbar. Click Open Perspectives and select Hierarchy View. From the SDK tools/ directory, enter: monitor For more information on how to use the Hierarchy Viewer, see Optimizing Your UI. Note: The command line version of Hierarchy Viewer has been deprecated.

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