Wish native WYSIWYG designer (without emulator) + storyboard

[Dave O]

OK, this is a big wish, but I'd love to see a WYSIWYG designer in the designer window (instead of the abstract designer), where I can see a high-fidelity rendering of my UI without having to use an emulator as a separate display.

Related to this, a storyboard view would also be helpful, so I can create screens and visually link them together and see flows.

Basically, I'd like something like the Xamarin designer:

https://xamarin.com/studio#designers

...but with Basic (easy, fast) instead of C#.

I can get by with the current B4A designer, but it's always good to see how things can eventually get better.

 

[Erel]

where I can see a high-fidelity rendering of my UI without having to use an emulator as a separate display

The Android emulator is slow. However you can use any of the available Android VMs (or a real device) and they work perfectly.

This makes it very easy to see the layout exactly as it will look on the device.