How to get to know about developer code blame in android studio

Question

I am working on project which is shared by few developers, how to get to know about developer blame in android studio?? any shortcuts or any idea? which will help us to know about code blame.

Madonna

Answer 1

Use Annotate feature of Android Studio

1.Right click in line number pane

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2.Select Annotate

Intensifier

Ya this is a feature of android studio I was looking for thanks @rcde0. – Madonna

Any idea what to do if this stops working for some unknown reason? The project is setup fine with VCS and integrated correctly (can show history/commit/etc) but the Annotate is greyed-out. Disclaimer: it was working fine until two days ago so i really have no clue what went wrong. – Windbag

@Shark, have a look at this answer . – Intensifier

Thanks but I fixed it last week. – Windbag

can we view this the a Intellij IDEA shows it (like a comment after every line of code) – Undertook

Tell Rishi to use string resources! Classic Rishi. – Jephthah

Is there a keyboard shortcut to show/hide this? – Housetop

@Housetop - never used that, this might help : developer.android.com/studio/intro/… – Intensifier

@Intensifier Thanks, that's a very useful link! But I had already figured it out and posted the keyboard-shortcut solution below. https://mcmap.net/q/386003/-how-to-get-to-know-about-developer-code-blame-in-android-studio – Housetop

@Housetop Awesome, and my bad, did not see that earlier. – Intensifier

Answer 2

You can install GitToolBox plugin to view code blame on every cursor position.

OR

you can view by right clicking on left gutter in android studio, you will have a pop-up with option for Annotation or Annotate with Git Blame.

Metaphysical

Answer 3

In addition to rcde0's answer, which I use all the time. You can also add a keyboard shortcut to toggle this view.

1. Preferences -> Keymap to bring up this screen:

2. Type "annotate" in the search area. This will find all commands that refer to the word in the search box.

3. Click on Git->Git->Annotate, this will bring up the first popup, asking how to proceed.

4. Select "Add Keyboard Shortcut" like I did here:

5. Another modal window will pop up, asking you to type in a keyboard shortcut. Select the area I'm pointing to and simply type your keyboard shortcut. You can see that I typed ctrlA. I never use it to jump to the beginning of the line, so this works well for me.

6. If the keystroke is already defined, it will warn you. Feel free to try other keystrokes until you find one that suits your style without eliminating something that you use for other things. Click OK to reassign the keystroke.

7. You'll now see your new keystroke mapped to the various "Annotate" functions. Hit 'OK' to exit preferences.

8. Try it out. Type your newly-defined keystroke and see the Annotations in the left gutter toggle on and off.

Housetop

Answer 4

Like me, if someone finds annotation for each line overwhelming and would like a summary for a class and functions, you could enable "Code author" option from Settings -> Inlay Hints -> Code vision -> Code author.

Monkshood

Perfect Answer, it appears after restart android studio! Thank You. – Camphene