Useful Eclipse Shortcuts for Android Developers

Eclipse is the most widely used IDE in android application development. If you have good proficiency in using eclipse IDE thats a great advantage. So In this post we are going to discuss about some of the useful eclipse shortcuts.

Navigation Shortcuts

Shortcut	Description
Ctrl + Shift + R	Open / Search for resources, e.g. files
Ctrl + Shift + T	Open / Search for Types
Ctrl + E	Allows to select an editor from the currently open editors
Ctrl + F8	Shortcut for switching perspectives
Alt + ← or Alt + →	Go to previous/ next editor position in history
Ctrl-PageUp/PageDown	Switch to previous/next editor
F3	Go to the declaration of this variable
Ctrl + Shift + P	Go to the matching bracket

Search Shortcuts

Shortcut	Description
Ctrl + .	Go to the next problem / error
Ctrl + ,	Go to the previous problem / error
F4 on a variable	Show type hierarchy
Ctrl + J , Ctrl + K	Incremental search, find next
Ctrl + Shift + G	Search for references in the workspace

Run Shortcuts

Shortcut	Description
Ctrl + F11	Run last launched
Alt + Shift + X - J	Run current selected class as Java application

Editing Shortcuts

Shortcut	Description
Ctrl + 1	Quickfix; result depending on cursor position
Ctrl + Space	Content assist/ code completion
Ctrl + T	Show the inheritance tree of the current Java class
Ctrl + O	Show all methods of the current class, press Ctrl + O again to show the inherited methods.
F12	Focuses on the editor (especially helpful if you work with Fast Views).
Ctrl + M	Maximize Java editor
Ctrl + Shift + F	Format source code
Ctrl + Shift + O	Organize the imports; will import the missing import statements.
Ctrl + Q	Go to position the cursor at the last changed position in the editor.

Arrow Key Shortcuts

Shortcut	Description
Ctrl + Left	Move one element to the left
Ctrl + Right	Move one element to the right
Ctrl + Alt + Up/Down	Copy line
Alt + Up / Down	Move line up / down
Alt + Shift Up / Down	Select the previous / next syntactical element
Ctrl + Up / Down	Scroll up / down a line in the editor

Delete Shortcuts

Shortcut	Description
Ctrl + D	Deletes line
Ctrl + Shift + DEL	Delete until end of line
Ctrl + DEL	Delete next element
Ctrl + BACKSPACE	Delete previous element

Coding Shortcuts

Shortcut	Description
Shift + F2	Show the Javadoc for the selected type / class / method
Alt+Shift + N + Letter	Type shortcut for the command, e.g. njc to create a new Java class or npip to create a new Plugin project
Alt + Shift + Z	Surround block with try and catch
Ctrl + 2, L	Assign statement to new local variable
Ctrl + 2, F	Assign statement to new field