Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Layouts Are Horrible

Our layout editors in Eclipse have been somewhat low priority for a
long time but we are now focusing some effort on it. You may have seen
that ADT 10 includes a lot of new features and we have more coming for
the next versions.

We are working on:
- better interactivity in the editor itself.
- better integration into Eclipse (*much* better autocompletion in the
XML editor, quick assist, refactoring, go to declaration)
- better rendering (3.0 is a huge step in the right direction already,
but we're adding some improvements and back porting it to earlier
versions)
- new features to help you design layouts (extract as include
refactoring, show included in, data in listviews, etc...)

If you want to follow our progress you can look at
http://tools.android.com/recent

As someone said, this is open source, and worked on directly in the
open (you can go to
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/sdk.git;a=summary to see the
latest changes or to
https://review.source.android.com//#q,status:open+project:platform/sdk,n,z
to see pending changes), and while we aren't forcing (or expecting)
anyone to contribute, if you feel passionate about tools and want to
contribute, please let us know (see http://tools.android.com/feedback)

thanks,
Xav
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Xavier Ducrohet
Android SDK Tech Lead
Google Inc.
http://developer.android.com | http://tools.android.com

Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks!

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