[android-developers] Android Layouts Are Horrible

[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 of stuff thrown in there as an after thought,
seems it wasn't really planned out.  They should have taken a lesson
from Java's crappy Gridbag layout  and used or at least analyzed how
Miglayout fixed many issues with Java GUI's.  I won't use any other
layout manager other than Miglayout.  Anyway just venting here as I
spent the last 1hr fixing something that should be so simple in a
Scrollview/TableLayout/TableRow with ImageView and TextView in each
row.

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Re: [android-developers] Android Layouts Are Horrible

[TreKing]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:01 AM, grndvl1  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 Layout tool really blows as it has a ton of errors
> and can't handle simple things like italic text in textview, scrollviews...
>

The ADT developers are pretty active on this list and are very responsive
useful, valid, constructive criticism. "It blows" is not really useful.

-
TreKing  - Chicago
transit tracking app for Android-powered devices

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Re: [android-developers] Android Layouts Are Horrible

[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.

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On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:51 PM, TreKing  wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:01 AM, grndvl1  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 Layout tool really blows as it has a ton of errors
>> and can't handle simple things like italic text in textview, scrollviews...
>>
>
> The ADT developers are pretty active on this list and are very responsive
> useful, valid, constructive criticism. "It blows" is not really useful.
>
>
> -
>  TreKing  - Chicago
> transit tracking app for Android-powered devices
>
>
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Re: [android-developers] Android Layouts Are Horrible

[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 

> 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  wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:01 AM, grndvl1  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 Layout tool really blows as it has a ton of errors
>>> and can't handle simple things like italic text in textview, scrollviews...
>>>
>>
>> The ADT developers are pretty active on this list and are very responsive
>> useful, valid, constructive criticism. "It blows" is not really useful.
>>
>>
>> -
>>  TreKing  - Chicago
>> transit tracking app for Android-powered devices
>>
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