I'm searching for a better Android XML layout editor than the one in eclipse. Preferable placing items by drag and drop to the correct X/Y position. With the current editor I have to try out figures to place it at the exact position is there an easier way?
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Looking at the search results on the internet and on this group,I find several mentions of the problem. Eclipse crashes while opening layout in the editor.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedSystem config is MacOSX with default JDK 1.5.0_16. Eclipse 3.4 The problem is I have a project in workspace that has been developed under JDK 1.6.I don't really want to switch back to 1.5 ( i' would have to clean up a LOT of @Override ) but if i work with this project, after couple of rebuilds - eclipse layout editor not able to display preview. Work around i found so far open android project that is in compliance with Java 1.5. Close everything else and rebuild workspace. But it's kind of annoying to do it every time.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm porting an app of mine to work better with API 1.5, and I'm having problems with the layout files where I'm using an AutoCompleteTextView (and, naturally, MultiAutoCompleteTextView). Whenever I have them present in a layout, the graphical representation of the layout disappears, and "NullPointerException: null" replaces it. Is there any way I can view a widget such as this in the Eclipse editor? It definitely worked in the 1.1 SDK, otherwise I wouldn't have used them.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThis is probably related to this question. I want to know if anyone else gets the same error as me and if there is a way to get around this. I did the following: Followed the instructions from this page. From the top, go to File -> Create a new project -> Android Project -> Create project from existing sample. Checked Android 2.2. From the drop-down menu picked SkeletonApp. Clicked finish. From the package explorer, went to SkeletonActivity -> res -> layout -> skeleton_activity.xml. In the tabs at the bottom of the editor area (editor area is the center of the screen) clicked on Layout. Then I got the error "ClassCastException: android.widget.EditText cannot be cast to andoid.text.ViewGroup". The full text of the error message is given below.
java.lang.ClassCastException: android.widget.EditText cannot be cast to android.view.ViewGroup
at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:619)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:621)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:407)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:296)
at com.android.layoutlib.bridge.Bridge.computeLayout(Bridge.java:397)......................
I'm new to Android & Eclipse. I've downloaded Eclipse and the Android ADT and created an ultra-simple "Hello World" app (has only auto-generated .java and .xml files). Eclipse CRASHES (closes after a very brief pause) when I do the following: In Package Explorer, select AppName/res/layout/main.xml Press, or double-click, or 'Open With' then 'Android Layout Editor' (The app runs OK in the Android emulator) My configuration is:
Android Development Tools 0.9.5.v200911191123-20404 com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group
Eclipse IDE for Java Developers 1.2.2.20100216-1730 epp.package.java
Windows XP
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong or what's wrong with my configuration? Any suggestions on what to check? For any non-trivial app development I need to be able to use the Layout Editor. More ... I can select main.xml and Right-Click and 'Open With' any of: XML Editor, XML Schema Editor, Text Editor -- with no problem. The problem is limited to Android Layout Editor.
Has anyone figured out how to scroll the contents of the Layout Editor when those contents overflow one "screen"? I'm talking about at design-time while using the ADT Layout Editor, not scrolling at run-time on a physical device (that works fine).
View 2 Replies View RelatedIn the layout editor in Eclipse, I have created a custom view. For some reason, there are a few methods which cause NoSuchMethodError exceptions in the code. Here is the code in the initializer of the custom view:.............
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhy there is difference between the screen layout in eclipse in xml editor and in the emulator?
View 1 Replies View RelatedSince yesterday everytime I open my layout Editor in Eclipse for the Android UI the last part goes on and on as expected if an Stackoverflow Exception occurs.Anybody else experiencing this and found a solution?I'm working with the latests android sdk on Mac OS X with Eclipse 3.5.2.I just installed the Carbon Version of eclipse and I get this error even in this fresh copy of eclipse.Very strange that I'm the only one experiencing this error. Maybe it is not an Eclipse problem but an problem of my project setup.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a mac and I run JDK 1.6 with my android dev setup and eclipse 3.4. It seems that the layout editor display is totally fragged.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI thought ADT should come with a visual editor for building GUI : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/851882/easy-way-to-build-android-ui However, I just cannot find it. I was wondering where is the Visual Editor for Eclipse with the ADT plugin. I can run HelloWorld application without problem. However, whenever I click on main.xml at the left navigation tree layout folder, here is what I get. What I wish to get is a WYSIWYG editor.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there an explanation of the ADT layout editor UI some place? I can't find anything on the Android web site about it. When I look at a layout in the design view, there are a number of fields at the top with labels like MCC, MNC, Lang, etc. I've noticed that I can change the contents of these fields, such as orientation, and it has an effect on the view. But a yellow warning triangle appears next to the field I've changed and the next time I open this view I see the unmodified field. For example, if I change to landscape orientation the view goes back to default next time. Is there documentation some place on what these fields mean and how they are supposed to be used?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to extend a RelativeLayout object and include an embedded SurfaceView object that uses a png file in my /res/drawable folder as its background but I keep getting an error in the XML Layout editor. See the following code:
public class StopMotionRelativeLayout extends RelativeLayout
{
private Context myContext;
private SurfaceView surfaceView1;
private BitmapFactory.Options myBitmapOptions;
private final android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams params =
new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);
public StopMotionRelativeLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
myContext = context;
this.setBackgroundColor(Color.GREEN);...................
Is there a (simple) way to completely and utterly disable all Java formatting in the Eclipse editor?
That is an Eclipse question, but I appreciate your indulgence because this problem is slowly driving me insane. I am spending a lot of time fixing code to make it look good again after it gets mangled by the automatic formatting. I thought I had removed all formatting keyboard shortcuts, but I missed something because my code keeps getting changed. I suspect the culprit to be the SourceFormat menu option because that can be triggered by Alt-S-F which is very close to Alt-F- S, the File/Save command.
So a little finger slip and code mangled. Unfortunately, the mangling is not always done where I am looking (since it is applied to the entire file), so I don't always know to undo it. Is it possible to disable or remove a menu item?
I m developing an android app, i ve had a problem with the layout editor. I m using eclipse 3.5.1 for RCP/plugin developers, the android developers kit version 0.9.5 and jdk 1.6 in ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron. I ve been working good until one day i had to modificate my UI. when i tried to see my main.xml layout i found the following error: Null Pointer Exception then NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class sun.awt.X11.XToolkit. I was looking for a solution but i didn't find so i reintalled all. Eclipse, ADT, SDK and Java. First it (layout) looked to work again but in two days it broke again. I m so frustrated cause i dont know what i do to get this error. First it works then don t .why?
View 3 Replies View Related1. Can I call ADT Layout Editor in my java source file, not by XML file "open with" menu ?
2. When I click "add" button in the outline view of ADT Layout Editor , it will show such a list of UI components as "AbsoluteLayout AnalogClock AutoCompleteTextView Button ....." My question is where it gets this list? Can I config this path to get my customized UI components?
You know that layout editor in the Android ADT plugin that lets you design the layout for ADP1, ADP2 and Nexus One, has anyone created other device configurations? It requires device information such as the x-dpi and y-dpi, which can be difficult to find out. I'm just wondering if anybody has added more device configurations they're willing to share? Perhaps together we could compile a huge devices.xml containing many of the devices out there. I'm fully aware the layout editor has many faults and cannot be relied upon but it is sometimes useful to rapidly preview how the layout might look on a wide variety of devices without switching between emulators.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIt seems that Android is very buggy compared not only to the iPhone, but to pretty much any other software. It's not just minor bugs either - pretty much every developer will come across many serious bugs. Some examples:
- When you run the "sdk setup.exe", the very first thing that happens is that it informs you that it can't connect using https, so you have to change the options to use 'http' instead. This appears to be a bug in the .exe rather than any kind of user issue because the https url works fine in the browser and this error seems to affect everyone. Sure, it's trivial to work around (just do a google search and you figure it out in 5 seconds), but the user shouldn't have to do that. It makes it look unprofessional.
- When you view a TabWidget in the layout editor it crashes.
- Every time you run an app in the emulator, it starts off with the screen locked so you need to press the Menu key.
- Various socket bugs (or perhaps all the same bug) related to IOException not happening. Even something as simple as just trying to connect to a remote host that is not listening will cause it to hang instead of immediately returning an error.
All of these bugs have been logged for months (some by me, some by other people) with no indication of any fix.
At the moment I'm just using the emulator, but I'm wondering if the phones themselves are this buggy or if all the bugs are just in the development environment and emulator.
I am using eclipse 3.5 with the ADT plugin.when I view layout xml files, i get two tabs in the view the source code view and a graphical view.the graphical view almost never works for any of my layouts.it usually shows "NullPointerException: null" at the top and nothing else. when it does work, it often does not match what i get in the simulator or device.it seems like this thing simply is not ready for prime time; although the idea is very cool.has anyone else had much success with it?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI want to know how to change the orientation of my layout inside of eclipse but when I click the "layout" button it still shows it as a vertical layout.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a layout I'm creating that uses ViewFlipper for different screens.In eclipse's layout editor it only displays the first page in the View.Is there a keyboard shortcut, or function to flip to the next screen?Currently I'm building each screen in a seperate XML file and then copying and pasting it into the main XML file.Is there a better way to work here?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've created a new xml file in my layouts directory using eclipse's "new->xml file" wizard and i want to be able to use the built in layout editor, however, this file is not recognized as an android layout file by the editor, but rather as an ordinary file. everything compiles and runs okay, but i wanted to know how to do it better next time.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm using the new SDK 1.5, and I'm trying to add some elements to a layout in eclipse.When I click the green plus symbol, the dialog pops up, but it doesn't populate with anything to choose from.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to know how to change the orientation of my layout inside of eclipse.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I create a subfolder in the layout folder, and drag an xml file to it, the generated R file doesn't seem to show the subfolder. a) is there a way to change that b) is the file and file structure still picked up by SVN and c) so, if I do it that way, can I still just refer to the object using layout?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am new to java, eclipse, and android development, so I may be missing something simple although I have checked basic stuff like spelling several times.
Because there is no number picker control (such as that used in the date picker) in the public Android SDK, the conventional wisdom is to "clone and own" the control that exists in the Android source.
In an attempt to do that, I have copied the code for NumberPicker into my project and its dependency, NumberPickerButton. I have also copied the supporting resources.
The problem I am having is that when I try to include the NumberPicker in a layout, the rendered version of the layout within Eclipse does not work.
CODE:...............
Adding that tag causes the Layout view of the XML file to only show the following error.
ClassCastException: com.spencerandbrown.PatientTracker1.NumberPickerButton cannot be cast to com.spencerandbrown.PatientTracker1.NumberPickerButton
I have tried both the fully qualified name and the unqualified name and it makes no difference.
The strange thing is that the control works at run time, it just will not render in Eclipse.
Is there a solution for this issue? Am I just doing something wrong?
If necessary, I can include more code from my project to clarify.
If I reference the internal Android widget, it works fine in the Eclipse layout view, but it is clumsy to interact with that way and it might break in the future.
CODE:............
Here is the stack trace from Eclipse.
CODE:........................
The xml files that contains the Activity layouts can be rendered by Eclipse.
How do I get that Eclipse screen area to have vertical orientation, not horizontal (inside Eclipse - it correctly shows as vertical in the emulator)?
Whenever i try to open the layout.xml file in eclipse..eclipse crashes and exits without any messages.. However if i try to open the xml file without using the layout editor of ADT plugin everything is fine....it will open as an editable file..the problem started only after i updated the latest version of ADT...before that everything was working fione.
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