Android hierarchyviewer unable to load window data

Question

I\'m trying to use the hierarchyviewer tool to see the layout of my Android app.

I can run hierarchyviewer, and see the emulator running. I click on

Answer 1

Problem is it only support Only Gingerbread and higher. https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/tree/browse_frm/thread/b8aac9fe39ec1941

Answer 2

For me, adding the INTERNET uses-permission to the manifest solved the problem:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

Answer 3

I found an application's view hierarchy does not load when the the app is under debug. Have you tried dismissing the debugger and just starting the app from the launch icon?

Answer 4

For mac add ~/work/android-sdk/tools$ ANDROID_HVPROTO=ddm monitor

or steps outlined here: http://developer.android.com/tools/performance/hierarchy-viewer/setup.html

Answer 5

In my case it was a carriage return character (U+000D) in one of my TextViews which prevented the hierarchyviewer from loading the window data.

These thinks do not help in this case:

• cleaning the project
• deploying the app not in debug-mode
• closing eclipse
• running adb kill-server && adb start-server
• trying other views like com.android.settings.Settings or com.android.development.Development (which worked fine)