How to extract supported XML Elements and Properties from a View?

Question

Is there a way to extract the XML properties that a view supports? For example, an EditText has an XML property called Text , but on the Java side you use getText and setText .

I want to create a system that automatically discovers all the supported XML properties so I can verify the XML layout. At first just working with the default widgets is enough, but eventually I want to also enumerate custom widgets.

Answer 1

Both standard and custom XML attributes are defined in values/attrs.xml . In the case of the built in ones they are in android-sdk/platforms/android-X/data/res/values/attrs.xml .

It looks to me like you would have to find a way to parse these files to figure out which attributes can be associated with which views.