Back on my Android project, I am now going to the extensive documentation on the Android site itself and have installed the development tools. Everything went smooth, except for one minor glitch. I remember from my previous, very short, stint with Android, that those tools where extremely helpful.
I also remember that keeping your application flow in line was pretty complicated. Most Android apps are constructed from a number of different, almost stand-alone, blocks. Keeping the overview of all of that became a hassle fairly quickly. So here’s a partial overview of my application.
It’s fairly basic for now, but I’ll expand it as I make progress. One thing I would have loved, was the ability to convert this visual information into an Android manifest. The existing Android editor is pretty extensive and offers a lot of help, but it would be even nicer if there was something even more graphical.
This seemed to me a question that would fairly regularly popup in Android developers minds, so I searched Google, but couldn’t find anything. In fact the only Android development tool that I could find was Droiddraw, which seems to have lost its reason to exist. Drawing user interfaces is now part of the Android Development Tools. Maybe it has some more options, I’ll figure this out when I get to the point where I need a GUI.
Are there any Android tools out there, which you can recommend?
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hierarchyviewer (included with the SDK) is a very helpful tool to see how your own (and other) UI is built by Android.
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