I'm a newbie Android App Developer, also new with xml. I was just wondering if there is an easier way to view xml output other than using eclipse to compile the android application (java + xml) and then see output in the android emulator. Just asking because it takes forever to check my UI through eclipse IDE to turn on android emulator then open my application, and I feel that there must be an easier way. I have searched for solutions but either I'm wording it incorrectly or I just do not know the correct terminology or there is no other way(hopefully not this option). Please help me figure out to how to run XML code to check and see the proper UI output (its layout, widgets in correct places etc.) without having to compile my application code every time.
I have already looked into DroidDraw - it provides one output within the the application and another output in android emulator. I find it quite inconsistent.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thank you
It's not very great, but Eclipse with the android plugin has a visual mode where you can see a preview of your xml immediately. It won't give you 100% accuracy but it does definitely help with simple mistakes. Just open your layout xml in eclipse, and notice the two tabs at the bottom: one is for the xml text, the other for the visual representation of it. You have dropdown menus at the top to try your layout on different screen sizes and orientations.
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Prerequisites: Got a working app from a friend who needs some changes made. They were outsourcing and now want to internally manage it.
I come from a web and game dev background, so Android/IOS development is new to me, but a lot of the principles seem to be the same.
I got the project onto my device, installed all of the dependencies, and fixed all of the file paths.
The app successfully builds, and I have my virtual Android device running it great!
However, my buddy wants some really simple layout changes, and for the life of me, I can't find where to just edit the home screen layout. I was trying to solve my issue from a web dev approach, by grepping where the logo screen is used in the app, but those files seem to just load a white "background" layer, and not the entire composed page?
I'm missing something really silly here, and I just want to ask a real person on here, instead of digging through documentation and trying to word a condensed question in a Google search.
Here are my condensed questions: How can I just edit the home screen of my app in Android Studio? Where can I find the full home page file to view the entire layout, and not just a fragment?
Edit: The app also utilizes the Flutter SDK, which may explain why I have been having trouble with layout edits. I'm going to look at it again after work today, and hopefully answer my own question. I appreciate the help so far!
Edit 2: After going back to the app with a different approach, I found out my project had defaulted to the "android" sub folder of my master, and wasn't showing any of the Flutter .dart documents. After going up one folder directory, I was finally able to access that Main.Dart file with the display information.
I was able to mount it for inspection, but its saying my emulated device isn't supported. I need to look at it when I have time tonight, and may need to ask a separate question for it. I have my project sdk set to Android 33, and my virtual device is set to Android version 33. I searched around Stack, with a few people with reporting similar issues. I tried following their solutions, but it didn't seem to work.
As the title states I am making an app with android studio. I recently installed git as well in order to interface with GitHub. For some reason whenever I change the layout on the layout editor, or type more than 3 characters of code the git terminal opens up multiple windows, then they disappear, and I get no errors of any kind. It repeats indefinitely and I am really unable to get any work done because of it. Has anyone seen anything like this before and if so I would love any help I could get. Thank you! I tried to make this as detailed as possible hopefully it isn't too broad.
i was wondering if there is any software that someone wrote for
showing what an .xml file would look like, just for experimenting UI while not having access to an android IDE.. i looked online but could find anything like that, so is there anybody out there who does know?
This is built into both Android Studio and the Eclipse IDE. If you bring up an XML file in the Layout editor, there is a "design" tab that will show you a rendering of how your layout will look.
To the best of my knowledge, there isn't another way to preview this without using the IDE.
I spend an unpleasant time looking for erros in my android layout, fields not showing up being the predominant one. As I see other people here also struggling a lot with android layouts I thought to throw this question in even so not completely according to the SO question guidelines.
What tools are out there to help with the creation of android layouts.
there is only one i know. its called http://www.droiddraw.org/
over the time i figured though that the best is still to create your own by code.
If you're using a newer SDK within Eclipse (eg android 4.0 or 4.1) it should help you with the layout (with much more functional drag and drop and alignment/spacing). However, you may still want to manually verify it to make sure it's exactly what you want, since you'll be changing other parameters too.
I am in the process of putting together a little Android app. I have created a couple of widgets by extending the ImageView and ScrollView widgets. The problem that I am having is not with the code itself (i.e. everything runs wonderfully) but rather with the Eclipse "intellisense" in an XML layout. If I am using the native android widgets, I get the normal eclipse suggestions and all is well. However, as soon as I add a reference to my widget (i.e. ) I lose intellisense on my widget AND (more painfully) on all widgets below my widget. In other words, I don't get intellisense on a if it exists below my widget. Again....everything runs, there is no error anywhere, it just becomes insanely slow to program this way.
This is very frustrating as I don't remember all the attributes of the various controls.
Has anyone encountered this or have any suggestions on where to begin trying to solve this? I don't even know what the correct term in Eclipse to start looking at this. After 3 days looking off and on, I am at my wits end.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Try the new ADT 9.0.0 plugin. It has many improvements of the "visual editor". See the changelog here