XML is used to be able to have resources for different configurations: landscape, portrait, high dpi, French, etc. It has nothing to with being "hip and trendy."
> It also can't be especially efficient to use findViewById > (whether BFS or DFS based) constantly? Use it once and keep the result in a variable :) > Which also leads me to wonder how come Android uses the old type- > unsafe int enum pattern Because enums are very costly. > and also, why method chaining isn't used to > greater effect. That's a very vague statement. Where should it be used more? -- Romain Guy Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
