[X-Istence]

The issue isn't layout control, although that could definitely be better, the issue is that even with all their fancy auto-resizing everything sometimes depending on the device/OS version you HAVE to hard code a pixel perfect layout or it just won't render correctly.

This means that even if you use Android's layout tools and create automatically resizing and fitting layouts it may not work correctly, and render incorrectly for example when you move from landscape to portrait, or move from one screen to the next. Highly annoying.

We've also had bugs that we could not reproduce on any of our test devices (all 27 of them that we have now ...) but that a customer had out in the field. We then attempt to locate the same device with the same OS version to test on.

Sometimes it has to do with themes that a manufacturer has installed not working correctly... this gets annoying fast when you've got the same phone on multiple carriers and they each customise it their own way.