Hierarchy Viewer

The Hierarchy Viewer allows you to debug and optimize your user interface. It provides a visual representation of the layout's View hierarchy (the Layout View) and a magnified inspector of the display (the Pixel Perfect View).

To start the Hierarchy Viewer, do one of the following:

• From Android Studio, choose Tools > Android Device Monitor or click the Android Device Monitor icon . Click the Open Perspectives icon and select Hierarchy View.
• From the SDK tools/ directory, enter:

  monitor

For more information on how to use the Hierarchy Viewer, see Optimizing Your UI.

Note: The command line version of Hierarchy Viewer has been deprecated.