Is it possible to use the ADT Android layout designer outside of Eclipse? If so, what is necessary to do that?
I realize the ADT is a plug-in to Eclipse, but I am hoping that with a small amount of hacking it could be used outside of the Eclipse environment. Even just being able to edit an Android layout without it being a part of an Eclipse Android project.
You can use droid draw to modify your layouts outside eclipse. http://droiddraw.org/
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When opening the Android UI Designer in Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 it does not render the view correctly. It only looks like this:
The view is correctly displayed in Xamarin Studio on my colleagues' PCs and is rather simple. I even tried starting a new sample project in VS. Same problem there.
Anybody has an idea how to fix this?
Visual Studio usually struggles in designer, especially when there are loads of features or complex resources etc. Best method is to just ignore the designer and always use code view. Alternatively Android studio has a good designer if it is a necessity.
Hope i could help.
i have an existing project on others pc, however, when i move the project files into another computer, the project itself unable to show the drag and drop view in the xaml file, it show the code view instead of drag and drop, how should i do to make let me see the designer view??
Are you using the Core Framework of xamarin or Xamarin Forms ? (I'm asking because you are talking about xaml files instead of xml)
If you are using the Core Framework juste have a look to this link coming from the xamarin documentation :
https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/user_interface/designer_overview/designer_walkthrough/
One last thing, instead of copying the files use a version management tools if is not the case (like github or bitbucket)
The installed Android SDK is probably too old. Consider updating it.
By saying visual I mean if there is a sort of option of seeing how the app might look on your phone while developing it using android developer tools kit downloaded from android website? I hope you got the question clear
Yes. You are building the layout with XML.
While you are developing you can switch between XML view and a graphical view.
This is in eclipse. Android studio hase something similar.
There is an layout preview in Eclipse where you could choose from a variety of predefined "devices". Also you could add your own.
I installed Mono for Android with the intention of using Visual Studio 2010 to design android apps. I am able to compile and deploy applications, but I am not able to view the layout designer. When I double click on an .axml file it opens in source view and there is no context menu option such as "View in designer." I am able to use MonoDevelop to create the layout, but I shouldn't have to do that.
Here are some screen caps:
Any tips?
It seems to simple but right clicking on the Main.axml in Visual Studio and select and choose Open with. Then select Android Designer should do the trick.
Despite that Android Designer can be set as Default it appears not to be working like that. I should say that's a BUG in VS and/or Monofor Android.
Are you shure to have the latest Mono for Android installed? (Version 4.2.4)
The Open With Dialog should have an entry "Android Designer".
Select this now and click "Set as Default".
Did a full uninstall, reinstall and reboot.
At first it didn't seem to have fixed it - my existing hello world project still wouldn't open the designer.
I tried creating a new project and ta-da all good now! Very odd.
I've very pleased to have gui designer. It really helps level the learning curve when learning a new platform - nice work Xamarin.
I did 3 installs until it finally took. I uninstalled then reinstalled and it still didn't work. I then just did a repair and it finally worked. Just keep reinstalling and you'll get it.
My situation is: I once made an android project(2.2 version) but soon needed to format my computer. After formatting, I downloaded eclipse again but when I imported my project, I wasn't able to use the 'graphical layout' menu for xml. It doesn't show me anything like the picture below.
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3586/19978552.png
I cleaned the project and updated the Android SDK, however, none of these seemed to work well. What could be causing this?
Try restarting Eclipse. Usually that solves the problem for me when that happens.
Right click on your layout xml file and select Open With -> Android Layout Editor. It will force eclipse to open file in android's layout editor mode
None of above worked for me. what worked for me is:
1- Select a Google APIs Project Build Target rather than one of the Android X.X ones. This setting is in right click on project -> Properties->Android.
2- Make a change in XML and save it. Now switch back to "Graphical Layout" and it will show the layout.
For some, only 2nd step works.
This Question was asked 3 year ago, I am sure that you have get your solution, however i was also facing the same problem but got the solution in eclipse, here it is:-
1)Goto help->AboutEclipse->Installation details.
2)check the version of Android DDMS, Android development tool, Android hierarchy viewer, Android native development tool, Android trace view and tracer for openGl ES in installed software tab.
3)If they have different version than you have to update all of them.
4)Goto help->check for update in eclipse and follow the instruction.
5)Then restart eclipse.
This solve my problem.
The topic seems a little bit cold, but I wanted to add it nonetheless.
I had a similar problem with my layouts recently. When i create a project it automatically creates the layouts in the latest version of Android (eclipse shows it as version 22 of android as of today). But i can't see anything. So i just change the version to, say 18, and it shows ok. Furthermore if i want to change it back to version 22 it throws and exception, saying that a class can't be instantiated. (I am probably missing a class or a library on my system.)
Therefore if you cant see the layout it might be a good idea to switch back to earlier versions for development. cheers.