Is there an application or tool that can do a preview of Android XML gradients and shapes? Is very annoying having to run app in emulator each time I modify XML, it should be a better way but Google says nothing.
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Is there an application or tool that can do a preview of Android XML gradients and shapes? Is very annoying having to run app in emulator each time I modify XML, it should be a better way but Google says nothing.
As of ADT 11, the eclipse plugin allows for a preview of gradients and drawables from the View mode of the xml. In ADT 12, there is even a drawable preview within the resource chooser dialog.
Make sure you have updated to ADT 12 along with SDK Tools r12. Here are the relevant release notes:
ADT 12.0.0 (July 2011)
Visual Layout Editor:
ADT 11.0.0 (June 2011)
Visual Layout Editor:
I have personally been using ADT 12, and can view gradients and custom views from within the graphical layout editor itself.