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I misread thinking he said iOSs XML system and not Androids. Original comment below.

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> .. View XML abstraction is not that far off from HTML/CSS.

Do you mean the underlying structure of xibs and storyboards? I don't think this is something anyone looks at willingly, much less actually work with.

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The parent seems to be talking about the Android layout XML, which is a much saner format than xibs and is actually quite nice to work with by hand.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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