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1. LAYOUTEDITOR LATEST VERSION UPDATE
2. LAYOUTEDITOR LATEST VERSION ANDROID
3. LAYOUTEDITOR LATEST VERSION SOFTWARE
4. LAYOUTEDITOR LATEST VERSION LICENSE

Imagine a cross between a full-featured graphics tool and top-drawer CAD package, optimized for designing electronic circuits and nanodevices, and that undergoes constant improvement and enhancement: that's LayoutEditor.

LAYOUTEDITOR LATEST VERSION SOFTWARE

Open-source software increasingly rivals expensive applications.

LAYOUTEDITOR LATEST VERSION LICENSE

Thus, we instead adopted a system that relied on user intent.CAD tools tend to be large, big-ticket packages that often pack stiff license fees. We have gotten feedback that because the dots were flashing, it was difficult to tell, for instance, filled (constrained) and non-filled (non-constrained) anchors. We decided to remove the green dots since they created visual clutter. Through usability studies, we identified several pain points in these workflows and made some improvements to them.įor interaction option #1, previously when dragging, we used the flashing green dots as an indication of whether or not you can constrain to that anchor. Using the “+” buttons of the constraints widget on the property panel.Dragging from the anchor of a component to the center of a target component(s).Dragging from the anchor of a component to the anchor of a target component.Using Zoom and Pan Controls Improvement #2 - Constraint creationĬurrently, there are three ways to create constraints in the Layout Editor: Improvement #1 - Constraint visualization and selectionĬurrently, there are two ways that the Constraints are visualized in the Layout Editor: (1) with arrows & anchors on the design surface and (2) with the constraint widget on the property panel, as illustrated below: With that goal in mind, we took the results from a series of recent usability studies with app developers, prioritized the issues, and after some technical investigations, we landed on the following top six areas to optimize the Layout Editor during Project Marble: One of the core goals we have for the Layout Editor is to provide you with the most accurate layout previews to allow for faster design iterations.

LAYOUTEDITOR LATEST VERSION ANDROID

Now let us shed some light on the significant usability improvements we have made so far in Android Studio 3.5 as well as our next steps. Hence, we also make sure that in all our efforts to improve usability none of the changes impacted performance. In fact, the design surface relies heavily on build speed, since on each mouse up: the XML is updated, processed by the build, and loaded into Layout Lib rendering engine - a simulation of the Android UI system running within Android Studio on the JVM.

While this article will focus mostly on the usability issues, we want to let you know that build performance was also a focus for Project Marble.

LAYOUTEDITOR LATEST VERSION UPDATE

Thus, we set out to address these performance and usability issues during Project Marble, and today we are excited to give you an update on the progress. However, we have also received strong feedback that there are several performance and error prone usability issues that make editing XML the only path forward, especially when working with ConstraintLayout, which often put developers in unintentional and awkward states in the design tool. We have heard from many app developers that they like the new features we introduced in the Layout Editor such as previewing layouts across different screen sizes, or sample data, which allows specifying placeholder text and images. The Layout Editor is especially powerful when building a new layout with ConstraintLayout. The Layout Editor is one of the design tools in Android Studio that enables developers to preview and build layouts across multiple devices.