#XAMARIN STUDIO XAML DESIGNER ANDROID#
The Android Designer is now using the XmlParser project instead of APIs. The following features are in the works and almost ready for Preview, or currently available on the Visual Studio 2017 15.8 Preview Channel. As such, we have been continuously following the different releases (2.3, 3.0, and recently 3.1) to bring in the best of the fixes and performance improvements made by Google.
#XAMARIN STUDIO XAML DESIGNER CODE#
Pieces of code from Android Studio’s layout renderer are openly shared as part of the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) allowing us to leverage them. Thanks to the collaboration of the Visual Studio XAML experiences team (in charge of both the WPF and UWP designers), we are now reusing the same designer UI shell to host the Android designer on Visual Studio 2017 making us benefit from the same solid foundation and familiar user experience. Leveraging the XAML Designer Shell on Visual Studio
Support for New Android FeaturesĪmong the new Android features that arrived with the latest release of Oreo, we have specifically added support for custom fonts and adaptative icons rendering. The concept is very similar to what modern web browsers are doing today, where rendering is achieved out-of-process and efficiently composited by the GPU in the main window. Indirect rendering allows the designer to process graphic updates when rendering your layout in a fully asynchronous manner. We plan to streamline this on all of our designers with a native UI and experience for each IDE. We have also developed a new property panel with a more intelligent design foundation and code-sharing strategy. It’s also much more efficient than before thanks to faster parsing, aggressive caching, and a better data model for querying. This new library now drives all resources operations we do from rendering to theme manipulation or autocompletion of resource names. We have since developed a complete API, very similar in spirit to what Roslyn offers for C#, that allows us to completely understand resources without involving any Java code. Previously our way of handling Android project resources used a complex system spanning Java and C# so that we could support both layout rendering and querying data from your resources. Xamarin Android DesignerĪll of the following features are currently available in the latest stable version of Visual Studio 2017. Now, we have a ton of new and exciting work that we can’t wait to share with you. Backed by your feedback, our team has been able to improve the Xamarin Android Designer significantly since it’s initial release a few years back.
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