Adding a list of available fonts and color to the tool

[hkasera]

Hello,

I would like to contribute to this project. I found this tool very useful when I was learning android basics at Udacity.

As we have a list of available images to pick from, it would be great to have the list of available colors and fonts. Right now, after typing in a color, we get to know whether that particular color is supported or not.

I would like to add this enhancement. Let me know if this is a welcome contribution right now!

Thanks,
Harshita

[phoebejaffe]

Hi @hkasera,

That's a cool idea! There are two considerations I'm thinking about:

1. the amount of space we have. If you make the window narrow, there's only a little extra space, not enough for two extra buttons.
   1a. One thought would be to make the button say "Available Images, Colors, Fonts", but that's also a bit too long. "Available Assets" is too obscure of a word, and many people won't think to click on it if they don't know what "assets" means.
2. Check out this list of colors. It's looooong, and the names are really not very intuitive. We'll need to figure out what color names to provide, but I'm thinking it might be better (less confusing to a beginner) to just use hex values whenever possible.

I'm happy to brainstorm on this though, because this is information we should be providing to students.

[hkasera]

Here is what I came up with:

• We could add a small box with the color next to the xml markup like in android studio. That box could be clickable and would show a color palette like the one we see in google docs.

- We could add a note on the bottom of the editable text area.

Upon clicking we could open up a modal window just which would show the color palette and the fonts available in two different tabs. The color palette could be like this.

These are the two things on the top of my mind. Let me know your thoughts on this.