Adt 20 Graphical Layout Editor

I recently updated my ADT to version 20.something. Since then, the Graphical Layout Editor is acting strange, while using API Level 3. Instead of showing buttons it is only display

Solution 1:

The WYSIWYG editor has only recently been made available.

I wouldn't worry too much about how things are displayed in the layout editor as it has quite a few bugs still.

If it works well in your emulator and on device, then the most reasonable explanation is that the layout editor is wrong. :)

Solution 2:

I experienced this problem when there were outstanding revisions of the APIs to download, e.g. I had the Android 2.2 API rev 2 installed, but rev 3 was available. Downloading the updates appeared to fix the issue.

I note that when changing the layout editor to show renderings for 2.0 or 2.3.1, it is still broken, but these platforms are obsolete so no surprise there. I suspect something changed and the updates are required to give compatibility in the layout view.