Not Able To Debug App In Android Studio

Question

I am making an app in Android Studio, now trying to debug it through adb. When I click on the word Android and the logo on the bottom bar, logcat comes up and recognizes my

Answer 1

Over the years I have visited this thread many times and there was always a different response that helped me. This time I figure out that it's my USB hub that was preventing debugger to work properly. As strange as it sounds, instead of having a phone connected to my computer via a USB hub, I had to connect it directly to my mac and debugging started to work.

Answer 2

I also randomly had this problem even after debugging many times in Android Studio. One day the debugger just wouldn't attach. I just had to quit Android Studio and reopen it and the debugger started working again.

Answer 3

Be sure to enable developer mode and USB debugging on the device or emulator. (Easy to forget when setting up a new one.)

Answer 4

Also make sure you're not using other applications that might be using ADB too, like Eclipse for example.

Answer 5

You also should have Tools->Android->Enable ADB Integration active.

Answer 6

There is a Debug icon on the toolbar. It looks like a little "bug" and is located right next to the Run icon (which looks like a play button). Try launching the application with that.

Edit: The following is deprecated when using Android Studio with Gradle.

There is also a debug flag in the AndroidManifest.xml file. It is located under the application tag, and should be set to "true", as follows:

<application android:debuggable="true">
</application>