Problems with Android XML Editor and Eclipse…Hard to manually edit XML

Question

It\'s been a few years since I have last developed android apps. Since then, a graphical editor was added to Eclipse that allows you to generate the XML for an layout in a

Answer 1

I can also confirm this behavior, though I didn't recall having this problem on earlier version of Eclipse so I strongly suspect it's the 4.x version of eclipse that's interfering with the xml editor, I use even newer 4.2+

edit: you may want to track this issue http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=27155