Android hierarchyviewer unable to load window data

I'm trying to use the hierarchyviewer tool to see the layout of my Android app.

I can run hierarchyviewer, and see the emulator running. I click on <Foc开发者_StackOverflow社区used Window> and try to load the view hierarchy and get the error:

Unable to load window data for window <Focused Window> on device emulator-5554.

I'm developing on OSX (10.6.5) using Eclipse 3.5.2. I'm currently debugging through Eclipse, in a custom-sized emulator. I have updated the Android tools to the latest (revision 8) with the AVD and SDK manager in Eclipse. I haven't found any threads searching for the error message, or for general heirarchy viewer problems.

Does anyone have an idea how to get the tool working?

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I found an application's view hierarchy does not load when the the app is under debug. Have you tried dismissing the debugger and just starting the app from the launch icon?

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In my case it was a carriage return character (U+000D) in one of my TextViews which prevented the hierarchyviewer from loading the window data.

These thinks do not help in this case:

• cleaning the project
• deploying the app not in debug-mode
• closing eclipse
• running adb kill-server && adb start-server
• trying other views like com.android.settings.Settings or com.android.development.Development (which worked fine)

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For mac add ~/work/android-sdk/tools$ ANDROID_HVPROTO=ddm monitor

or steps outlined here: http://developer.android.com/tools/performance/hierarchy-viewer/setup.html

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Problem is it only support Only Gingerbread and higher. https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/tree/browse_frm/thread/b8aac9fe39ec1941

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For me, adding the INTERNET uses-permission to the manifest solved the problem:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>