9.0.0
- Visual Layout Editor
- Empty layouts with 0,0 size are now automatically expanded when selected and during drag and drop
- - The generated XML will be better formatted. Full XML formatter can be enabled in the preferences (under Android > Editors), but will touch part of the XML that isn't modified.
- Rendering target can now be changed from the default (project target)
- - when choosing resources for rendering, the API level is properly handled
+ - When choosing resources for rendering, the API level is properly handled
+ - Improved support for rendering <include> and <merge> views
+ - "Extract as Include" refactoring to extract selected views into a separate included layout.
+ - String and reference properties can be edited from the layout editor's context menu
+ - Rewritten outline drag & drop handling, improved label colors and content
+ - The generated XML will be better formatted. Full XML formatter can be enabled in the preferences (under Android > Editors), but will touch part of the XML that isn't modified.
+ - Automatic configuration of many widgets on drop, such as automatically filling a TextView in a vertical LinearLayout, adding rows to new tables, etc.
+ - Double click views to jump to the corresponding XML declaration, or for included views, to the included layout file
+- Go to Declaration hyperlinks for navigating from @resource references to their XML declarations, from the manifest file to activity and service classes, from Java access of resource R fields to the XML declarations, etc.
- Logcat view in DDMS now properly displays UTF-8 characters.
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8.0.1:
- Fix compilation issue in Android projects referencing standard Java projects.
- Better error reporting when exporting applications for release.