Easier Android layouts with DroidDraw
Submitted by greg on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 01:22
In picking up Android development, one thing I miss from the iPhone camp is Interface Builder. Coding up Android's XML files to handle all the UI screens is tedious even for one display type. Add on the different orientations, dimensions, and the rest makes it very un-fun.
After the upteenth tweak-save-rebuild-redeploy-navigate-to-screen-4 cycle, I did a search, and found DroidDraw. It's no IB, but it suffices to stub out many of the basic UI elements, lay them out as I need to, and tweak so much faster than in Eclipse. It has property editors for the most common attributes. And it lets you import existing layout XML.
Nice job!
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