So I decided to give the XS.Android layout tool another try today since I needed to make what should've been some quick changes to a relative layout. I ran into a couple of issues...
The compiler(not the layout tool) requires elements to be declared before they are mentioned in the xml. So if something is the 3 third item in the xml I can't have item 2 or 1 reference it(Eclipse/Native doesn't have this issue) Keep in mind relative layouts are Z-Ordered so order of items actually matters.
Using the visual editor when I move things around the Id's of the object that is either above or below isn't set correctly. It seems to be going after the first element in the xml for the relational id. For some reason the editor kept putting the string resource name as the id name for the item because that happened to be what I had declared first in my text view.
Curious if anyone else has run into these issues before I submit bugs.
The editor still needs a lot of work its getting better and is light years from where it was when I started using Xamarin; but it still looks like I'll need to maintain shadow projects of resources with Eclipse so I can get in and out quickly when making layout changes..