Layout Inspector not always available?

Android Programming (3rd Edition) 4. Debugging Android Apps
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Hi Ethan,

Thank you for your useful info. I also found the details in the following link.

hierarchy-viewer

“Set the environment variable ANDROID_HVPROTO=ddm on your development machine” is a key point for this challenge.

The Environment Variables can be set based on the following link.

variables

In my case with Mac,

  1. open ~/.bash_profile
  2. Add:
    #Hierarchy Viewer Variable
    export ANDROID_HVPROTO=ddm
  3. source ~/.bash_profile