Cannot see parameter value in Android Studio when breakpoint is in first line of a method

Question

I am just switching from Eclipse to Android Studio and found this weird behavior. When I add a breakpoint in the first line of a method, I cannot see the parameter values. The only thing I can see then is the this reference. I either have to make one debug step or set the breakpoint to a line after the first one to see the parameter values.

Anyone else has this problem or knows what's going wrong here?

Answer 1

Try turning off your jacoco test coverage off for the debug build in your build.gradle file:

debug {     ...     testCoverageEnabled false } 

This completely fixed the issue for me where upgrading the gradle plugin did not.

Answer 2

A good solution until AOSP Issue #123771 is solved, is to use the snippet provided by Stuart in the comments section:

buildTypes {     debug {         [...]         testCoverageEnabled true     }     release {         [...]     }     debuggable.initWith(buildTypes.debug)     debuggable {         testCoverageEnabled false     } } 

This way you can both keep your test coverage reports in your debug build and have a way of stepping through code seeing your local variables.