In addition to completing code as it is typed the editor can, under certain conditions, also generate code for you. The list of available code generation options shown in Figure 8-12 can be accessed using the Alt-Insert (Ctrl-N on macOS) keyboard shortcut when the cursor is at the location in the file where the code is to be generated.
For the purposes of an example, consider a situation where we want to be notified when an Activity in our project is about to be destroyed by the operating system. As will be outlined in a later chapter of this book, this can be achieved by overriding the onStop() lifecycle method of the Activity superclass. To have Android Studio generate a stub method for this, simply select the Override Methods… option from the code generation list and select the onStop() method from the resulting list of available methods:
Figure 8-13
Having selected the method to override, clicking on OK will generate the...
