I think the adt is going backwards, the GUI designer is a waste of time, drag and drop just does not work properly, we just need the up and down arrows back!
2010/12/31 Bob Kerns <[email protected]> > Actually, I find the huge properties menu to be an improvement over > the old properties view (which is still available, BTW). > > The "Attributes you can't seem to control" thing is definitely a > problem. > > For example, with a relative layout, depositing an item to be "below" > another, you can't just get "below", you also get one or both sides > aligned. But what I really want is to align the side to the parent > view. I haven't found any way to do that. You can't get "below" alone, > and once it's attached to the one above, you can't attach it to the > parent without losing the connection to the one above. > > I do find it saves time in the very initial setup of a screen, or if > I'm just tweaking a property here or there. But at the moment, if I > try to do more than a limited set of things with it, I end up wasting > my time. > > I do think it's going in the right direction -- and I look forward to > its arrival! > > On Dec 31, 8:23 am, John Lussmyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've used the NetBeans and MyEclipse GUI editors extensively. They are > very > > nice. > > The Android thing in Eclipse is pretty much a waste of time. Bizarre > things > > happen when you try to drag controls or layouts in. Items end up in > totally > > unexpected places, with attributes that you can't seem to control. The > huge > > properties menu isn't very helpful either. > > > > After just a few minutes of attempting to use the GUI editor, I gave up > and > > just edited the XML directly. Much easier, quicker, and with better > control > > of what you get. I don't even bother previewing my layouts with the GUI > > editor, as it frequently leaves out controls entirely. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Totally agree. If you use XML, you will actually understand what's > > > going on instead of relying on a GUI editor to do the work for you. > > > > > Personally, in over a year and a half of using Eclipse, I've yet to > > > drag and drop a single control with the 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- 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
