Android custom layout

Question

I spent sometime yesterday struggling with android layouts (... or better custom layouts). For general purposes forms the out of the box layouts that androids offers are mor

Answer 1

This is a FANTASTIC question. I am programming for 3.0 and above currently, and have decided for the most part to stick with AbsoluteLayouts in many cases. While it is set to be deprecated, compiling for 3.0ish and below most likely will still be able to run on 4 and beyond systems for a bit. Im searching for this answer myself (for future versions of the OS that cut it out). The reason they are cutting it out is because of there being no standardization of screen resolution on Android.

My suggestion would be to use AbsoluteLayouts for AS LONG AS WE CAN. I also think we should start a push to let Google know that it is still a Very necessary API to their platform.

Great Question :-)