A small program to generate Android layout initializers from XML.

readme.md

Parses an Android layout XML file iteratively, getting every element with an explicit id.

Then creates private variables, and separately the initializers for each one, with an appropriate cast in place.

Greatly lowers time to convert layout -> finished custom view.

Pass as first parameter the path to a layout.xml. All output is on stdout.

parse.py

import lxml.etree as ET
import sys

defs=[]
binds=[]
for event, element in ET.iterparse(open(sys.argv[1])):
    try:
        elid = element.attrib["{http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android}id"]
        elid = elid.split("/")[-1]
        elid_transform = elid.split(".")[-1]
        elid_find = elid.replace(".","_")
        eltype = element.tag.split(".")[-1]
        defs.append("private "+eltype+" "+elid_transform+";")
        binds.append(elid_transform +" = ("+eltype+") inflatedView.findViewById(R.id."+elid_find+");")
    except:
        pass

print "\n".join(defs)
print "----"
print "\n".join(binds)