While learning how to build a simple user interface on The instructs. From the Palette window on the left, click Text in the left panel, and then drag Plain Text into the design editor and drop it near the top of the layout. Where exactly can I find "plain-text", or is it something I type then drag into the design editor?
The link's down below:
https://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/building-ui.html#textbox
If you are using Android Studio 2.3.3, click on Text in the Palette, and Plain Text will be one of the options:
You can find it here.
Start typing after pressing the magnifying button it would show up as the top result.
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I'm following the tutorial Writing your first Android app – everything you need to know, and the 'coding' part essentially starts when the author tells you to select the default "Hello World" TextView, at the top left of the design view, and change its position and text. I have done this before, and I know there is supposed to be green frame drawn around the TextView when you click it. In fact, when I select the XML in the text view for the TextView, a green frame is indeed drawn around it, but I can't move it or find the "Properties" pane for it.
Why can't I select it in the design view? The tutorial goes on to change its position and content, but I cannot proceed until I can select it.
Strangely enough, there is a FloatingActionButton at the bottom right of the design view that I can select just as expected.
NOTE: This has something to do with the theme. I changed the theme, and was able to select and move the TextView. However, I don't remember which theme, and when I closed and re-opened the project, this were back to normal, and I could only select the FloatingActionButton. Then, I tried a few other themes, and now I can't even select the button.
In the uiautomatorviewer (the one that comes with android sdk) window , there is a textbox in the upper left corner (on top of the heirarchy view). What is it for?
Thanks
It's a search box. You can enter text to search for and then move to next or previous result with the little arrows.
Yep, ugly UI.
I find the Android Studio (v1.0.1) layout "Design" view to be too small to be useful - I can barely see some of the elements. The "zoom" button shows only a very small portion of the layout. Is there a way to detach the view so that I can enlarge it?
And is Android Studio's "Design" view different from the "Preview pane" that I see referenced in various forums?
Thanks,
Tom
Not sure how you program, but I much more prefer the text mode with a preview.
There are 2 modes for the xml:
Text
Design
While in Text mode you can:
Enable the preview
Turn it into a floating-resizable window:
You can also hide the bars on the sides and the bottom for example. Simply click on the according category, which always has a number in front (e.g. 1:Project on the left, or 4:Run at the bottom).
Alternatively, you can double-click on the tab of your design view, which will resize it to full-screen.
There's no way to separate the tab to be in a separate window. However, if you zoom in the designer you can then pan around the visualization using the scroll bars. If you want to see the "preview" then at the bottom of the pane, look for the "text" tab. Select that instead of "design" and you'll be taken to the raw text XML. While in text edit mode, you can see a live preview of the layout. It may be collapsed by default, look for "preview" on the right side of the overall window.
How can I arrange windows in the Android Studio?
For example, dock Android-DDMS window to the right side of the IDE.
I've found only tabbed view on the bottom or floating, both I don't like.
You can drag the numbered labels around the screen. You want the 6th tab (6: Android). Simply drag it to the right size.
Another way would be: Right click on the label -> Move to -> Right/Left/Top/Bottom.
First time I double clicked on the layout main.xml file in an Android project, it brought me to the text view, but there was also a visual preview (in the right side of the view). I clicked on the arrow to hide the visual preview.
Now how do I get this preview back?
(Yes there is the Design tab , but initially there was a visual view in the text section aswell!)
You can find it in the left bottom corner like the image below.