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.
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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.
Recently I was playing with ConstraintLayout introduced in Android Studio 2.2 preview.
Screen was like above, but suddenly I have pressed few keys and that black screen disappears.
Does anyone have any idea about how to get back the design screen?
There are 2 buttons in the bar above that screen
The one selected here toggles the design, the one to the right (the blue grid) toggles the blueprint.
So in your case click the Show Design button to make it reappear.
If your Android Studio window is too small, these buttons will auto-hide, so if you can't see them make sure that your window is big enough.
N.B.: if both screens are visible and you click Show Design, it will hide the blueprint, and vice versa. This may be a bug.
I am using Delphi XE 8 to build Android app and I have a form that have two buttons at the bottom like this one
How I make sure these buttons still visible when the virtual keyboard appear and position back to the bottom when the keyboard disappear ?, effect would be like this screen:
Please take a look at Embarcadero example: FMX.Mobile.ScrollableForm Sample
and add an extra TLayout with bottom buttons (cancel/continue) - the position of this layout should be assigned according to bounds from VirtualKeyboardShown event handler. There is also another, similar example called KeyboardToolbar. The examples can be also found in "c:\Users\Public\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\16.0\Samples\Object Pascal\Mobile Samples\User Interface\"
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.
I have an app that is basically a listView which brings up a detail screen when an item is selected. In landscape I split the screen so that the left had pane contains the listView and the right hand pane contains the detail of the item selected on the left. The dual mode proportions are split 45:55 which is hardcoded in the layout xml. I want to give the user the ability to change the proportions to their own liking. Some kind of setting in Preferences would be OK. Even better would be a "widget" actually on the screen which they could slide to change the proportions. I haven't found a way of achieving this. Does anyone have any ideas?