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Spook
Spook

Reputation: 25927

How to create new item template in Android Studio?

Android Studio provides a number of templates for new items - activities, fragments, services etc.

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Is there a way to create a custom one? I'm using databinding extensively and I'd like to create a template, which would automatically add a viewmodel, create layout file with layout root item, prepare code to bind viewmodel etc.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1702

Answers (1)

stuckj
stuckj

Reputation: 996

There are several tutorials on this. E.g., here and here. The upshot is that the templates are written in freemarker template files. These have to be placed inside a sub-directory under the actual Android Studio application (e.g., on a mac it's in /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/plugins/android/lib/templates/...).

Personally, I've been looking for a way to have these stored in a project-specific location (e.g., in the project repository), but have so far not found a way to do that. I think you can only make these available by placing them in that sub-directory under the application's folder.

Upvotes: 3

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