I\'m switching my development environment from Eclipse to Android Studio these days. And I really enjoy its autocompletion and many other features this IDE provide. However, I h
I think that I got a solution for this. You don't have to start monitor but you can use DDMS instead almost like in Eclipse.
Start Android Studio-> pick breakpoint-> Run-> Debug-> Go to %sdk\tools in Terminal window and run ddms.bat to run DDMS without Monitor running (since it won't let you run ADB). You can now start profiling or debug step-by-step.
Hope this helps you.
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