XML in eclipse not updating? - android

I'm using eclipse helios to design a simple android application, however I'm having issues with tidying up the user interface by editing the XML after writing the rest of the application. However none of the edits to the XML file (I've checked it's the right one) are showing when I send the application to the onscreen emulator.
For example, if I change this segment:
" "
to
"
"
and click on the green arrow, the radio button remains "Female".
Can anyone help?

I had this happen once and once I uninstalled the app from the emulator the next debug session had the right copy of the program in it.

There are known issues with eclipse 3.6 (helios) I suspect that this could be related to one of them.

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Everything worked fine yesterday, but today when I opened the Eclipse and trying to open a layout it looks like this:
As you can see there is nothing shown(Not the name of the layout, not design and graphical tabs).
I already tried the following:
To upgrade everything in the SDK manager.
To restart everything including my computer(which in most of the time fix any problem in eclipse).
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UPDATE:
Add to done list:
Re-Open Perspective
Window>> Reset Perspective
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Open with >> Android Common XML Editor,
try this as well
Window>> Reset Perspective
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It's been a few years since I have last developed android apps. Since then, a graphical editor was added to Eclipse that allows you to generate the XML for an layout in a WYSIWYG fashion (part of the android sdk). I like it. Speeds things up.
However, with this editor I am having a heck of a time editing the xml in the "xml view" as opposed to the "graphical layout" view.
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I don't think it makes a difference, but here are my specs.
Eclipse:
Version: 4.1.0
Build id: M20110912-1510
Android Development Tools 12.0.0.v201106281929-138431
This is fixed in ADT 20 Preview 3, released today.
http://tools.android.com/download/adt-20-preview
Although this is not exactly a solution (and hopefully doesn't earn me some downvotes) I've found a nice compromise is to open the layout twice, once in the android layout editor and once in the normal XML editor.
You can do this by right clicking the file (or alt clicking on mac I assume) and selecting "Open With", you should see all the different android editors, a text editor and an XML editor.
The nice thing about opening it twice is you can have it side-by-side (drag it to another pane), the only issue now is that you have to give focus to the android layout editor in order for it to update, but at least you have your shortcuts and delete keys.
I found workaround(fix). Redefine shortcuts for copy and paste in preferences->Keys to some other key combinations, then standard cmd-c cmd-v will start work. I did not had issues with delete, but it may work for other key issues. I am on mac so not tested on windows.
I can also confirm this behavior, though I didn't recall having this problem on earlier version of Eclipse so I strongly suspect it's the 4.x version of eclipse that's interfering with the xml editor, I use even newer 4.2+
edit: you may want to track this issue http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=27155
I have the same issues, delete, ctrl-v not working in the latest Eclipse as of July 2012 with the latest Android plugin on Linux Mint 64 bit.
It's definiteley (in my case at least) the android XML editor that is at fault. As Damon says, opening the xml using eclipse with "open with" and not choosing the android editor fixes the issue. The android editor can be open in parallel.
You can manually define commands and shortcut keys through
Windows > Preferences > General > Keys
I actually copied "Ctrl + C", "Ctrl + V", "Ctrl + Y", "Ctrl + Z" commands and define the "When"s as "Editing XML source".
It works!
The issue I face, which is demo-ed here (not posted by me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUnOesjL1IE,
is fixed by disabling "Automatically format the XML edited by the visual layout editor".
The formatting for layout XML is gone for sure, but at least I can edit the file properly.
In word, Tools - options - Edit tab, be sure the typing replaces selection is checked. Spacebar key will then work to delete text.

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