Android Studio Design Tab Grayed Out

Question

I imported a libgdx project into Android Studio to create the UI for my app. I tried to open the designer to easily add items to the UI, however the design tab from View > Tool Windows > Designer is grayed out. I assume it's because it's an imported project, would be great if anyone knew of a way to open the designer, thanks!

Answer 1

Scene2D comes with LibGdx which is usually used to create everything related to UI. I wouldn't recommend to use default Android UI with LibGdx game.

Here is some documentation an tutorials how to use Scene2D in your LibGdx project:

https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Scene2d

It's also recommended to use Ninepatch for your UI elements such as buttons so it can scale the buttons and other elements correctly. There is also a documentation and tutorial for that here:

https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Ninepatches