[habosa]

Been doing Android development for 8+ years. The main thing to realize is that nobody actually knows what they're doing. You'll have a problem and spend hours and hours just searching for "the answer" but it's not out there. Everyone who has solved it has used their own hacks, and they're not going to be able to transfer the hack to you.

Once you realize this it's somewhat liberating. You focus on the bug/feature and not the method. One time I was trying to solve a particularly nasty layout-at-runtime problem and just realized I could write my own ViewGroup and lay it all out myself, pixel by pixel, faster than fighting RelativeLayout or whatever. And that code is more stable than something where I import some library that's not going to be maintained.