[king_jester]

I think your post highlights one of the problems with the Android framework when it comes to UI: it's difficult to know what the right approach is for a particular task, esp. when thinking about many OS versions and device types.

There are simple solutions to the problems you mention, but it is very difficult to know they even exist without several hours of research and trial and error. For framework environments like Android this slows app development and leads to apps that don't behave well. The tools and docs available right now need to be better if Android wants to be the dominate mobile platform for devs.

[Dove]

Yes, it's learning *nix all over again. There is an easy way to do things, which you cannot on any account find, until you complain and look like an idiot when someone tells you how to do it in twenty-eight characters.

I'm moving to the "It's not me, it's you" phase of the relationship faster this time, though.