[leviathan]

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-y]

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

[pawadu]

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

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

[yoz-y]

I was using Android studio from beta until the early 2.x series. It has been some time but there were indeed many cases in which I had to go dig in the XML representation of the UI file. I do hope and believe it is getting better.