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Is there a tool or a website that could help me create a UI for an Android application using drag-and-drop?
I found this site but want to know if there is a more stable tool or website for this?
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ViewGroup is a collection of Views(TextView, EditText, ListView, etc..), somewhat like a container. A View object is a component of the user interface (UI) like a button or a text box, and it's also called a widget.
The Android UI model is inherently customizable, offering the means of Android customization, testing, and the ability to create custom UI components in various ways: Inherit an existing component (i.e. TextView , ImageView , etc.), and add/override needed functionality.
Allow me to be the one to slap a little reality onto this topic. There is no good GUI tool for working with Android. If you're coming from a native application GUI environment like, say, Delphi, you're going to be sadly disappointed in the user experience with the ADK editor and DroidDraw. I've tried several times to work with DroidDraw in a productive way, and I always go back to rolling the XML by hand.
The ADK is a good starting point, but it's not easy to use. Positioning components within layouts is a nightmare. DroidDraw looks like it would be fantastic, but I can't even open existing, functional XML layouts with it. It somehow loses half of the layout and can't pull in the images that I've specified for buttons, backgrounds, etc.
The stark reality is that the Android developer space is in sore need of a flexible, easy-to-use, robust GUI development tool similar to those used for .NET and Delphi development.
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The Android Development Tools (ADT) plugin for Eclipse includes a visual editor for android application layout files:
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adt.html
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