Request: allow the UI designer and preview to show ViewStub's layout [37090997]

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Feature Request

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Description

lb...@gmail.com

created issue #1

Mar 29, 2016 10:32AM

Currently, I don't see any way to show the ViewStub on the UI designer (and preview), no matter what I try.

Example:

<ViewStub
android:id="@+id/..."
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout="@layout/..."
android:visibility="visible"
tools:background="#3300ff00"/>

As you can see, I tried to force it to create the layout, using the visibility, as suggested here:

http://developer.android.com/training/improving-layouts/loading-ondemand.html

It seems this works only at runtime. I want to just show it in design time, which is why I would have changed it to "app:visibility" later, but even the normal "android:visibility" doesn't work.

Please allow to show ViewStub in the UI designer and preview.

Maybe even add a new tag for views that will be ignored for the app itself, yet still be shown in the UI designer.

Comments

fr...@gmail.com <fr...@gmail.com> #2Jul 3, 2019 09:19AM

Any update on this? I would love to see this too. Since the `layout` is provided I was hoping to get it included in the preview. Maybe it could be a special `tools:` flag to trigger an inflate during the Android Studio preview?

tr...@gmail.com <tr...@gmail.com> #3May 8, 2020 02:06AM

Any update on this?

sa...@google.com <sa...@google.com> #4Aug 18, 2020 03:27PM

Status: Won't Fix (Obsolete)

Thank you for your feedback. We assure you that we are doing our best to address all issues reported. For now, we will be closing the issue as won't fix obsolete.

lb...@gmail.com <lb...@gmail.com> #5Aug 18, 2020 08:04PM

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/165313049

da...@archive.ittybittyapps.com <da...@archive.ittybittyapps.com> #6Nov 25, 2020 01:39AM

You can add tools:visibility="visible" and that should work. Like so:

<ViewStub
    android:id="@+id/..."
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout="@layout/..."
    android:visibility="visible"
    tools:background="#3300ff00"
    tools:visibility="visible" />

da...@archive.ittybittyapps.com <da...@archive.ittybittyapps.com> #7Nov 25, 2020 05:34AM

The downside of the above is that anything constrained to the ViewStub will not be where they're supposed to.

si...@gmail.com <si...@gmail.com> #8Oct 9, 2021 01:01PM

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si...@gmail.com <si...@gmail.com> #9Oct 9, 2021 01:03PM

It has a problem in ConstraintLayout.

st...@gmail.com <st...@gmail.com> #10Mar 28, 2023 09:52PM

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st...@gmail.com <st...@gmail.com> #11Mar 28, 2023 09:53PM

Tools visibility is not working for me. Makes ViewStub unusable for my complex layouts. Looks like I'll have to stick to includes for now.

st...@gmail.com <st...@gmail.com> #12Mar 29, 2023 07:01AM

My bad, tools visibility works after all. I mean the view renders as it should however when placed in a grid layout it is not selectable from the designer preview.