Wish design android Activity UI By webide or Android Version b4a IDE?

B4A's visual form design function is indeed from 2015 to nearly 10 years has not made much progress, if you can do most of the function can preview, add pictures in the interface designer, modify the button title can immediately see good results.
Perhaps the most powerful UI designer is the Web version, which can be designed to open a web page and finally convert it to JSON format and regenerate it into a Bal format interface document.
The other is like the mobile version of PS, which directly designs and adds various buttons, pictures and other controls on the phone, and really sees the effects, animations, playback sounds and so on.

I have not used B4A for many years, and I have forgotten that it has such a function, and I have used it briefly before.
What is displayed on the computer is only the position by bit, is there any way to display the screen image of the phone directly to the interface designer, so that it is perfect
This is a real visual design, and I can even change the button title and move the position directly on the phone.
Just tried it, it turns out that you can actually move buttons on your phone.

If you can also add buttons, text boxes and other control elements, completely get rid of the computer, it will be a trans-era invention and creativity.

When cutting the control into another container panel, it is best to default coordinate 0,0 or stick on it will not be found, unless the PANEL is pulled very large to find.

Depends on the Internet speed, I don't think it gives a good user experience when using a web hosted IDE.

xiaoyao said:

When cutting the control into another container panel, it is best to default coordinate 0,0 or stick on it will not be found, unless the PANEL is pulled very large to find.

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I think it will remember the position and paste to the same position on target panel if the size is same. This is more useful.

xiaoyao said:

B4A's visual form design function is indeed from 2015 to nearly 10 years has not made much progress

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Many things have improved in the visual designer since 2015.