Is there a good tool for doing Android layout design? [closed]

Answer 1

DroidDraw: It's not perfect, but it's a nice start.

Answer 2

try IntelliJ IDEA IDE. It has a good android layout design tool

Answer 3

I created a tool that allows you to scale/adjust your layouts for tablets and small screen devices and made a blog post about it here: http://onemanmobile.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-to-scale-your-android-layouts-to.html

Basically, defining your layouts in dp units is not enough if you want your app to fit on all devices and tablets, since there's four different "density-buckets". This tool will allow your layouts to be converted into fitting these density buckets.

So in your case, define one layout - and have it scaled as you please..

Answer 4

Yeah, its not easy. But if you work with it (Eclipse that is) long enough and you'll figure out the tricks to make things work well.

With complex screens the biggest problem is that they tend not to scale up/down as well as simpler screens. So you may end up designing the screen a few different ways to support multiple screen sizes.

Interestingly enough, for iPhone screen design, the layout part is extremely easy due to the fact that absolute positioning is used, so you just drag stuff exactly where you want it. So for complex Android screens maybe use absolute layout. Most people will tell you this is a bad approach, and I've never used it myself, but who knows. Just keep in mind they myriad of screen sizes that your app will be shown on.

Answer 5

Over the years i've learned that there is no good drag and drop tool for anything. Code, forms, layouts, at the end the best way to create something is going to the src. Since we're talking about mobile device here, good, optimized layouts are important. Therefore it's worth to spend some time and manually edit XML, it will make product better.