Comments on: Auto Formatting Android XML Files With Eclipse

By: Me

Me — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:01:53 +0000

thanks. this was useful

By: JtotheL

JtotheL — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:13:20 +0000

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

Using the current version of Eclipse, you can even set the key binding as "clean up" and then it doesn't even provide that prompt anymore.

By: ossama

ossama — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:25:54 +0000

thx !!

By: Whitefriars

Whitefriars — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:57:48 +0000

Thanks heaps! Just what I was looking for, why is it not the default setup?????? It turns a mishmash into readable code.

By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:49:38 +0000

Haven't found one yet.

By: alaQ

alaQ — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:09:57 +0000

For source:

Under Window-> Preferences, go to Java->Editor->Save Actions, and enable the 'Format source code' option.

I'm not sure if there's a similar capability for the XML, though.

By: Ori

Ori — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:44:37 +0000

Thanks! that realy helped me a lot!

By: Editing XML resources for Android in Eclipse « Android from scratch

Editing XML resources for Android in Eclipse « Android from scratch — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:26:34 +0000

[...] just know how to set it up. As it turns out, Artem Russakovskii of Beer Planet recently wrote an excellent post with instructions for configuring Eclipse to auto-format your XML pleasingly so it will look more like [...]

By: yudha

yudha — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:12:43 +0000

thx for information

By: Artem Russakovskii

Artem Russakovskii — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:05:54 +0000

Yeah, this was mentioned a few times in the article...