WIth Jelly Bean available, more or less, it’s time to discuss some of the new developer tools. One tool that was glossed over at google IO, is great for quickly showing the areas your views are rendered in.

In the developer options, turn on “Show layout bounds”.

Once this is enabled, you should see all of the bounding areas of your views displayed in vibrant blue and purple.

This should give you great insight into those pesky layouts that just don’t want to adjust.