Question

Whats the best way for me to take an android XML layout file and automatically generate the equivalent Java code? Does a tool like JAXB work and if so how do I use it?

Answer 1

Whats the best way for me to take an android XML layout file and automatically generate the equivalent Java code?

Step #1: Parse the XML.

Step #2: Generate the Java code. You’ll have to pray that you can build your own AttributeSet implementation that works with your generated code, otherwise this will be a very complex problem.

Does a tool like JAXB work

AFAIK, JAXB needs an XML Schema, and there is no such schema possible for the Android layout file.

Whatever problem you’re trying to solve this way, there’s probably a better solution.

I just want a simple way to take an android xml layout and pass it to, say, a command line tool to generate the equivalent Java.

I seriously doubt that this will be “simple” for any reasonable definition of the term.