Preview 2 is much improved - being able to drag views up and down the list (and into child layouts) is great, no need for the up/down button now. Again, can still use some work, but it's getting back to the point where I am comfortable using drag and drop, but able to do things manually now.
Here's some frustrating things I would like to get see fixed, which may relate to the tools or integration with Ecliipse: * Refactoring If I rename something, all references to it should be updated * Other Properties in the right-click menu I could take off the stinking property window completely, if all custom properties (like references or resources) could be picked from here - this is already done for things like layout_width (Other...) - resource references/properties could be done the same way, (Select Resource..) * Property state If you move from one view to the other, you get pushed back to the top of the property window. Especially if I am editing a property that every one of the views I click on has, this should not happen... my property window should stay focused on the same property for the new view. It does this *some* times, but the times it doesn't is frustrating * Resource Chooser (for String Properties) Very frustrating when you have any more than about 100+ strings, say using them for tags, and you need to select one from this - it loads the list of resources and resets back to the top of the list - every time. You can either try to scroll down the list and quickly click your item, or wait for the whole list to load, reset to the top, then scroll down to your item - this is a lot of wasted time. I could just manually type the string (@string/whatever), but I'd prefer to pick from a (quicker) list. * Simultaneous Viewing of MultiRes Layouts I'd really like to see a way to view multiple layouts simultaneously (i.e. compare my HVGA and WVGA side by side) * Merging Layout Changes Even more, I'd like to see a way to make it much easier to work with multi-res layouts. Currently, if I add a view to one layout, I have to add it to all layouts that it will apply to. For example: I have customized version of: res/layout/main.xml res/layout-land/main.xml res/layout-large/main.xml res/layout-ldpi/main.xml If I want to add a view, assuming it would be added to all layouts, I have to either add it once for each version of my view, and set all the properties each time - or (try to) copy and paste it to each layout, although copy and paste needs a lot of improvements still. * Deprecated/Newer Feature Warnings As developers, we want to make things compatible for as long as possible, so it would be helpful if the tools pointed out if we are using things that may not work prior to "x.x" - such as new properties that are added/removed/etc. We do get warnings for deprecated properties (in the property window), but that is about it. There's the top of my wishlist.. I wish I was more experienced and had time to help with creating and fixing the tools.. but I'd rather be using them and building better applications, then trying to help improve them. I recommend others that want to see the Tools improved use the links provided: * Bug Report http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/entry?template=Tools%20bug%20report *Feature Request http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/entry?template=Tools%20feature%20request Thanks again for all the work you put into these things... -Tim On Dec 27, 4:16 pm, fala70 <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope soon, this version is very unusable. > > On 13 Dic, 09:03, Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > there's no doc at the moment as it's very much a work in progress. > > That first version is quite rough, I'll admit (but has a few more > > features than the previous one). > > > We're hoping to release updates very frequently. > > Xav > > > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:10 PM, stanchat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The new Layout Editor is also giving me problems. I'm trying to add a > > > Linear Layout as the child of another linear layout and then add a > > > textview and button. I'm having a hard time doing that with the new > > > editor. I miss the big + and - along with the arrow keys to move > > > views up and down. Is there any documentation on the new editor > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > Xavier Ducrohet > > Android SDK Tech Lead > > Google Inc. > > > Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
