Re: [android-developers] Android Layouts Are Horrible

2011-04-04 Thread TreKing
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:01 AM, grndvl1 grnd...@gmail.com wrote: Why is it I spend more time dealing with the layout of items than the actual coding of the program? Maybe you don't know what you're doing or haven't spent enough time with the tool to use it properly? The Eclipse Graphical

Re: [android-developers] Android Layouts Are Horrible

2011-04-04 Thread Chris Stewart
I stick to writing my layouts by hand, as it's something that's not terrible once you spend some time learning how to do it. I felt overwhelmed at first too, but the more of it you do the better you get at it. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:51 PM, TreKing

Re: [android-developers] Android Layouts Are Horrible

2011-04-04 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
I do that too, and it's a good way to know what's really going on in my layout files. Even then, the graphical editor is very useful for previews. -- Kostya 2011/4/4 Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.com I stick to writing my layouts by hand, as it's something that's not terrible once you

[android-developers] Android Layouts Are Horrible

2011-04-03 Thread grndvl1
Why is it I spend more time dealing with the layout of items than the actual coding of the program? The Eclipse Graphical Layout tool really blows as it has a ton of errors and can't handle simple things like italic text in textview, scrollviews... The layout parameters seem to be a hodge-podge

[android-developers] Android layouts

2010-03-26 Thread emna zeddini
In fact , after I had added arabic support to the android os, I have now to deal with layouts. In other words: texts must be right aligned, scrollbars must be on the left side, checkboxreference must be reversed and so on. I'm thinking of modifying the styles.xml, themes.xml please can you help