Xamarin provides a visual designer for mono for Android.

This article is from my translation on infoq Chinese siteArticle, Original address is: http://www.infoq.com/cn/news/2012/05/Mono-for-Android-Designer

Recently, xamarin has released a visual designer for its mono for Android development tool integrated into Visual Studio or monodevelop.

Xamarin designer for Android is a drag-and-drop development tool used to create the Android Application Interface. This tool is provided in the form of Visual Studio or monodevelop plug-in. The designer can be used to layout all native widgets and controls, including layout containers, images and media. It can also modify its attributes and generate a. axml file. The designer also supports custom la s based on languages, regions, countries, and mobile phone carriers.

The design appliance consists of the following components:

• Design Interface-displays the interface running on the target device in the form of a preview.
• Toolbox-contains a series of widgets and la s that can be dragged to the design interface.
• Property panel -- displays the properties of the selected widget.
• Outline View-displays widgets in a tree structure. You can view hierarchical relationships.

Xamarin designer can be used for Android 2.2 to 4.0.3. It can be configured for various screen sizes, resolutions, la S (portrait or landscape), and devices (such as physical keyboards or attached hardware buttons) create and edit interfaces.

The updated mono for Android 4.2 comes with a device toolbar that allows you to deploy applications edited using the designer to default devices. The latest version of xamarin's Android tool provides a project template, signature wizard, integrated logcat, Java binding library tool for honeycomb and ice cream sandwich, shared runtime with half the size, and some bugs fix.

Xamarin does not independently provide the designer but integrates it into mono for Android. Users can use its yearly subscription for download.

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