{"id":9005,"date":"2018-10-03T01:37:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=9005"},"modified":"2019-02-18T12:33:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:33:34","slug":"aa2qvgp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-aa2qvgp\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Android Designer Split View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #4e5758;font-family: 'WeblySleek UI','Segoe UI','Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">The ability to see the\u00a0design view and\u00a0layout XML at the same time, side by side, was one of\u00a0our\u00a0most requested features for the\u00a0Android Designer. With <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/xamarin\/android\/user-interface\/android-designer\/designer-basics?tabs=vswin\">Split View<\/a><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #4e5758;font-family: 'WeblySleek UI','Segoe UI','Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">, new in the <\/span><strong>Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 release<\/strong><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #4e5758;font-family: 'WeblySleek UI','Segoe UI','Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">, you can switch back &amp; forth\u00a0freely\u00a0between both modes of working. Edit the layout XML to see the changes immediately previewed\u00a0in the designer or make changes in the designer and see the XML update.\u00a0<\/span><span>(Note: Split View is currently just available on Windows, not yet on Visual Studio for Mac.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to see the\u00a0design view and\u00a0layout XML at the same time, side by side, was one of\u00a0our\u00a0most requested features for the\u00a0Android Designer. With Split View, new in the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 release, you can switch back &amp; forth\u00a0freely\u00a0between both modes of working. Edit the layout XML to see the changes immediately previewed\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus","category-vs4mac"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The ability to see the\u00a0design view and\u00a0layout XML at the same time, side by side, was one of\u00a0our\u00a0most requested features for the\u00a0Android Designer. With Split View, new in the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 release, you can switch back &amp; forth\u00a0freely\u00a0between both modes of working. Edit the layout XML to see the changes immediately previewed\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}