Question

When adding TextViews and ImageViews to my layouts that will be populated dynamically at runtime, I often add placeholder text and images so I can preview a realistic layout. Can the layout editor do this for me without requiring me to explicitly include these strings and images in my application automatically?

Answer 1

It doesn’t look like this feature exists, so I created a feature request.

When adding TextViews and ImageViews to my layouts that will be
populated dynamically at runtime, I often add placeholder text and
images so I can preview a realistic layout.

Please enable the layout editor do this for me without requiring me to
explicitly include these strings and images in my application
automatically. I assume you’d want to have a default image size in
the preferences and allow individual ImageViews/texts to override the
defaults with something like tools:defaultImageWidth=123px,
tools:defaultText=”Lorem Ipsum”, etc.

tools:numDefaultLoremIpsumTextChars=80 would generate 80 characters of
default text.