How to do a view hierarchy dump in android app

Question

I want to profile my ui - it falls on stackoverflow for the onDraw method

I've been told its because my ui has too many layers

I wanted to do a view hierarchy dump to see how deep my layers are

but when i try to load the hierarchyviewer I get this error:

Error obtaining UI hierarchy
Error while obtaining UI hierarchy XML file: com.android.ddmlib.SyncException: Remote object doesn't exist!

how do i fix it?

Answer 1

If we can't fix this problem yet since it's a known problem,

we can try the monkey talk .

It provides a view hierarchy with its own mechanism.

Answer 2

You can also use the Genymotion emulator instead until this is fixed. the uiautomatorviewer has no issues with it from my experience.