Casper Bang wrote: > It wasn't until I found Mark Murphy's "The Busy Coder's > Guide to Android Development" that I starting feeling a bit more > comfortable with all the XML
That is due to the subliminal "angle brackets are your friends" I have in the watermark on the pages. ;-) > Also, Roman Guy replied in another thread, that you can't do the same > with Java as you can with XML (although that seems odd, all other XML > view technologies I know of ultimately translates into a Java > component tree): > http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners/browse_thread/thread/5f130bfbc51669aa His second post was a bit confusing to me, but I think he was trying to echo the point he tried to emphasize in his first post. When you get to the Resources chapter in the aforementioned book, there's a section at the end that covers resource sets. Those allow you to have different resources loaded based on different criteria, from user language to screen resolution to the existence of a QWERTY keyboard, and beyond. While it is technically possible to do all of that in Java, you'll drown in a sea of if(), switch(), and ternary operators. Similarly, while it is technically possible to use containers like RelativeLayout fully in Java, it is *much* more verbose than setting them up in XML. Finally, one key reason why any development platform uses XML for anything is to help support the creation of tools to manipulate it. Admittedly, that hasn't happened much with Android, outside of the main SDK tools and stuff like MOTODEV's extensions on the same. But it is much easier to build tools to generate and modify XML-based UIs than it is to build tools to generate and modify Java-based UIs, IMHO. Those sorts of arguments may not matter much to you, which is why the Java-based approach is available and valid. I use it sometimes myself, though not terribly often. Choose the approach that you like. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
