I tried the latest layoutlib-api jar and after fixing up the compile errors that caused, I'm still getting these errors on startup:
Error: Error parsing /Users/dschaefer/android/android-sdk-macosx/system-images/android-23/android-wear/x86/devices.xml
cvc-complex-type.2.4.d: Invalid content was found starting with element 'd:skin'. No child element is expected at this point.
and build:
[2016-01-16 19:23:19 - DougTest] /Users/dschaefer/eclipse/workspaces/ide/.runtime-AndroidTest/DougTest/res/values/styles.xml:7: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'Theme.AppCompat.Light'.
as well as the layout editor telling me:
This version of the rendering library is more recent than your version of ADT plug-in. Please update ADT plug-in
I'll keep digging at these but even then, I'd prefer we have have project templates that generate projects that look like the ones generated by Android Studio, and yes, that includes building with Gradle.
In other words, unless other people aren't seeing these errors, I'm not sure how we release anything sane for Neon.
Doug.