Android - (Views) Hierarchy Viewer

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Configuration/Installation

Hierarchy Viewer only works by default with phones running a developer version of the Android OS. If your phone is not a developer phone, you have a few options:

• If you have a phone running Jellybean or higher, you can simply add the environment variable ANDROID_HVPROTO with the value ddm:

ANDROID_HVPROTO=ddm

• You can run Hierarchy Viewer on an emulated phone.
• Or you can use use the ViewServer library to get Hierarchy Viewer working on a non-developer, pre Jellybean phone.

Location

You can open it:

• sdk/tools/hierarchyviewer.
• or by going to the Android Device Monitor and then clicking the Hierarchy Viewer button.

Documentation / Reference

• Tool hierarchy viewer