From an Android PoV I'm very skeptical of the benefits this. Unless you can round-trip between code and a visual tool, you are unlikely to get professional designers to touch a UI layout in code.
It's hugely valuable to get designers to adopt the SDK's design tools. Unless the designers on a project are obstinate about that, making that more difficult is usually a step in the wrong direction.
He also seems to be blaming the toolchain's refactoring and the declarative UI XML for being difficult to manage. It is really that bad?
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From an Android PoV I'm very skeptical of the benefits this. Unless you can round-trip between code and a visual tool, you are unlikely to get professional designers to touch a UI layout in code.
It's hugely valuable to get designers to adopt the SDK's design tools. Unless the designers on a project are obstinate about that, making that more difficult is usually a step in the wrong direction.
He also seems to be blaming the toolchain's refactoring and the declarative UI XML for being difficult to manage. It is really that bad?