Reputation: 357

LogCat Missing from Android Studio 3.1.3

I recently installed Android Studio 3.1.3 on my laptop in order to start learning android/mobile development (I am still new to all of this). The LogCat option seems to be missing though (refer to images below)

image showing the missing alt-6 from Tool Windows

image showing the missing LogCat tab

What I tried to do in order to fix the problem:

-uninstalling and reinstalling android studio (along with updating it...)

-researching the problem (no useful results as all the solutions were to press alt-6 or go to View->Tool Windows)

It would be a huge help/relief if someone knows how to solve this problem. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 19

Answers (7)

FrankKrumnow

Reputation: 508

This is not a solution if Logcat doesn't even show up in View->Tool Windows!

But if it does: click it and it may show up at a different location than it used to be. Without recognizing I had shoved it to the top left where the project tab is shown. You can now click on the gear wheel on the tab and select move to bottom left (that is the default location).

This was the solution for my "logcat not showing".

Upvotes: 0

regeter

Reputation: 1552

I closed "Logcat" by accident via right click -> "Remove From Sidebar". I was able to restore it with these steps:

Launch your current App on an emulator.

This should create a "Run" Tab on the Sidebar. 

Click on the "Run" Tab and find the "Modify Run Configuration..."
(Wrench) icon and launch it.

Change the tab to "Miscellaneous".

Check the box next to "Show logcat automatically"

Upvotes: 0

konse

Reputation: 1065

Just in case anyone stumbles upon this as I did: If you are developing a react-native app, be sure that you import only the android folder of the project. If you import the whole project, then among other things, logcat is nowhere to be found!

Upvotes: 1

Behzad Fattahi

Reputation: 479

You need to sync your project and then Logcat will show up

Upvotes: 8

avrahamy

Reputation: 191

I know it is an old question, but I encountered this problem at least twice so it might help someone.

The problem seems to be the path of the project you're looking at. It should be pointing to the folder containing the 'app' and 'gradle' folders inside your project.

Go to File > Open
Select the folder with the 'app' folder inside your project
Press 'Open'

If you see something like this you can now probably open the Logcat window with alt-6 or View->Tool Windows.

Note that for some reason, it didn't work for me at first until I opened the app folder, run a build and then opened the folder containing the app folder.

Upvotes: 15