How to change the default behaviour of Android Studio

Question

Can we change the default Build behavior of Android Studio from Constraint to Relative Layout?

Problem: Sometimes it takes more time to Clean/Rebuild my project. And I never use Constraint Layout, so I want to set the build behavior of Android Studio from Constraint Layout to Relative Layout.

I want every-time I open AS, it should open Relative. Is it possible to achieve?

Answer 1

Quite Easy - just in 3 steps

1. Goto C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\plugins\android\lib\templates\activities\common\root\res\layout
2. Backup simple.xml.ftl
3. Modify simple.xml.ftl to below code and save it

---

<RelativeLayout 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="${packageName}.${activityClass}">

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_margin="10dp"
    android:text="Sample"
    android:textSize="16sp" />
</RelativeLayout>

Tried and tested on Windows 10 build:gradle:3.0.1

• Works for every new activity in the same project and for future projects as well.
• Note: Need to modify the simple.xml.ftl file with Admin rights
• For this to work out you don't need to edit layout > New > Edit File Templates... your layoutResourceFile and layoutResourceFile_vertical by removing the ${ROOT_TAG} - as I have already tried but that doesn't work.