Ok, so, being the novice programmer that I am, Google has become my friend. Java tuts here and there, but never really anything to assist with the development of the singlehandedly most visible portion of your application, the GUI.
LOOK NO FURTHER!
http://www.droiddraw.org/
A web-based (Or stand-alone) Java applet that lets you visually configure your GUI and creates the appropriate xml files for you on the fly!
Talk about sweet.