Suppress tip-of-the-day in Android Studio [302571384]

Fixed

Bug

Reviewed (L1)

Status Update

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Description

gh...@google.com

created issue #1

Sep 28, 2023 07:51PM

The tip-of-the-day feature from IntelliJ does not work well in Android Studio. Running the "Tip of the Day" action shows just 5 tips from plugins; all the built-in platform tips are missing. This is because the platform tips are not actually part of intellij-community sources. For example, you can see that IntelliJ IDEA ships with a file named tips/QuickJavaDocInLookups.html inside app.jar, but this file does not exist in JetBrains/intellij-community.

Users complain about this too: b/285777375, b/220312595, b/195757170.

Discussing with JetBrains, their advice was: "[we] definitely suggest disabling them completely instead of fixing [...] [we're] actually gradually moving towards this with our focus on less cognitive load for users. There is simply no place for such modal interaction in our new UI approach"

So, let's suppress tip-of-the-day for now (both the action and the daily auto-popup).

Comments

cs...@google.com <cs...@google.com> #2Sep 28, 2023 07:55PM

SGTM

gh...@google.com <gh...@google.com> #3Sep 28, 2023 09:46PM

Marked as fixed.

Fixed by commit 0f5d182671 for Iguana Canary 7.

tn...@google.com <tn...@google.com> #4Sep 28, 2023 09:49PM

Every now and then I get random tip of the days from the Kotlin plugin. Does your fix remove those too?

gh...@google.com <gh...@google.com> #5Sep 28, 2023 09:53PM

Yup! Those Kotlin tips were collected via the com.intellij.tipAndTrick extension point, which is effectively dormant now that I disabled the tip-of-the-day action/popup altogether.

tn...@google.com <tn...@google.com> #6Sep 28, 2023 09:54PM

👍

ha...@google.com <ha...@google.com> #7Sep 28, 2023 10:42PM

Does the suppression happen before What's New Assistant suppresses the tip of the day? In other words, is the logic in hideTipsAndOpenWhatsNewAssistant still needed?

gh...@google.com <gh...@google.com> #8Sep 28, 2023 11:05PM

Good catch; that code in WhatsNewStartupActivity can be removed.

ha...@google.com <ha...@google.com> #9Sep 28, 2023 11:12PM

Ok, thanks! Filed b/302600642

an...@google.com <an...@google.com> #10Oct 5, 2023 09:26PM

Thank you for your patience while our engineering team worked to resolve this issue. A fix for this issue is now available in:

Android Studio Iguana | 2023.2.1 Canary 7
Android Gradle Plugin 8.3.0-alpha07

We encourage you to try the latest update.

If you notice further issues or have questions, please file a new bug report.

Thank you for taking the time to submit feedback — we really appreciate it!

ji...@gmail.com <ji...@gmail.com> #11Oct 7, 2023 02:59PM

Update kre software ko sbi aap change chalice