On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree, both aren't exactly success stories. Microsoft has the WP7 > card up their sleeve though. Similarly JavaFX Script could've been > wonderful on Android, the current XML markup coupled with the weird R > file and associated manual casting is just not worthy of a modern > mobile stack anno 2010. > You can't really avoid casting when you're reading a Java hierarchy off an XML file. The important part is to limit this casting to its bare minimum (getting the root), and Android does exactly that. I'd argue that Android's R system, which provides static type safety for resources, is actually pretty solid. I can't count how many times I've had regular Java code crash at runtime because a .properties or .xml file could not be found... This can't happen on Android: the compiler will tell you right away. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
