hevinxx / android-studio-templates

A collection of ready-to-use templates for Android Studio, designed to streamline your development process especially with Android Compose.

android-studio-templates

A collection of ready-to-use templates for Android Studio, designed to streamline your development process especially with Android Compose.

Installation and Usage

Setup

1. Download this repository
2. To find the Android Studio config directory, open Android Studio and navigate to File > Manage IDE Settings > Export Settings.... The path shown in the "Export settings to:" field is the config directory.
3. Place the fileTemplates folder and the templates folder into the config directory.
4. Restart Android Studio.

Verification

After restarting Android Studio, you can verify the templates have been added:

• File and Code Templates: Go to Preferences > Editor > File and Code Templates.
• Live Templates: Go to Preferences > Editor > Live Templates.

Usage

• File and Code Templates: These templates can be selected as options when creating a new file.
• Live Templates: These templates can be used anytime by typing the abbreviation and pressing the Tab key.

Available Templates

File and Code Templates

• Android Activity: Ideal for creating a new Activity in a new file.
• Android Fragment: Ideal for creating a new Fragment in a new file.
• Android Activity: Ideal for creating a new Activity with view binding in a new file.
• Android Fragment: Ideal for creating a new Fragment with view binding in a new file.
• Kotlin Composable: Ideal for creating a new Composable function in a new file.

Live Templates

• modi: Inserts a default Modifier.
• liveData: Conveniently inserts a pair of MutableLiveData and LiveData.
• parcelize: Make a parcelable class with parcelize annotation.
• parcelizeData: Make a parcelable data class with parcelize annotation.
• remst: Create a mutable state and remember it.
• stateFlow: Conveniently inserts a pair of MutableStateFlow and StateFlow.
• try: Quickly inserts a try/catch block.
• viewBindingActivity: Create a view-binded activity.
• viewBindingFragment: Create a view-binded fragment. These templates are designed to save you time and effort during development by providing reusable code snippets and structures.