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Discussion on: What happened to Graphical GUI Builders? - Help me understand - (They are still here, I guess)

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Idan Arye

Auto generated UI code is bad, but some modern builders have a better solution - instead of generating code they generate XML (or some other format) that's used to build the GUI. That way you don't have to manually edit code that you may want to change with the builder later.

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Guilherme Taffarel Bergamin

Yeah, I like Android Studio's solution for that reason, but I still mostly use it for viewing and not for building.