How can Visual Studio shortcut keys be used in Android Studio?
Yes, this is possible.
For newer Android Studio Versions
This approach works on at least Android Studio v1.3 and later (per @Dazzibao's comment)
From the menu, select File | Settings. Select the Keymap option on the left, then from the Keymaps drop-down, select "Visual Studio". The defined shortcuts are then updated to Visual Studio settings.
Further customizations are able to be made, and applied. To export these settings, from the menu, choose File | Export Settings, and then select Key Maps, select a file, and save. These can be restored via File | Import Settings in the same way.
Note: Many of the shortcut keys that I was used to using C# are not set to be the same values using this method. Try the second approach (below) if not satisfied with Android Studio's "Visual Studio" key map assignments.
For older Android Studio Versions
The same approach has been documented here for the IntelliJ IDE, and also works for Android Studio. It involves downloading a .jar settings file intended for Resharper users, and importing it into Android Studio.
- Navigate to: https://github.com/hhariri/Tidbits/blob/master/resharper.jar
- Click "View Raw" to download the resharper.jar file
- In Android Studio, import the settings:
File -> Import Settings -> <fullPathTo>/resharper.jar
Keyboard shortcuts are now as they would be in Visual Studio. For example, from the Run menu, review the debug control flow shortcuts:
