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0 pointswingerlang9y ago0 comments

I misread thinking he said iOSs XML system and not Androids. Original comment below.

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> .. View XML abstraction is not that far off from HTML/CSS.

Do you mean the underlying structure of xibs and storyboards? I don't think this is something anyone looks at willingly, much less actually work with.

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spacehunt9y ago

The parent seems to be talking about the Android layout XML, which is a much saner format than xibs and is actually quite nice to work with by hand.

leviathan9y ago

I think the parent is talking about android views. which are XML documents and almost everyone writes the XML instead of mucking about with the visual editor.

yoz-y9y ago

I think this is mostly due to the lacking visual editor rather than virtues of the underlying XML format.

pawadu9y ago

Seriously? In a thread about Android Studio of all places??

https://developer.android.com/studio/write/layout-editor.htm...

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