Is there any way to avoid hundreds of "android:" statements in an Android XML layout file? I am new to Android and I find the "android:" statements make layouts very hard to read. Plus they are a pain to constantly type. 

For example, instead of this: 

```
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_column="2" 

```

I would like to just see this:

```
layout_width="wrap_content"
layout_height="wrap_content"
layout_column="2"

```