Comments on: Android User Interface Code is Not Easily Reusable http://openideals.org/2008/10/21/android-user-interface-code-is-not-easily-reusable/ ... and the trouble it often gets him in Mon, 07 May 2012 01:36:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: admin http://openideals.org/2008/10/21/android-user-interface-code-is-not-easily-reusable/comment-page-1/#comment-1565 admin Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:45:19 +0000 http://openideals.com/?p=101#comment-1565 Wow, that is a really old post (2008!), and very early in my time working on Android. You are absolutely right of course, and to be honest, I don't care much about portability of Android UI these days. Thanks for the response however! Wow, that is a really old post (2008!), and very early in my time working on Android. You are absolutely right of course, and to be honest, I don’t care much about portability of Android UI these days.

Thanks for the response however!

]]> By: Alex http://openideals.org/2008/10/21/android-user-interface-code-is-not-easily-reusable/comment-page-1/#comment-1564 Alex Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:10:33 +0000 http://openideals.com/?p=101#comment-1564 You do not have to use XML. All you can do in XML and more you can do in Java code on Android. Therefore you are welcome to write your own UI components and reuse them as you would in any real Java application. However. You have to use android API and you can not use Java2D or Swing because it is not available in Dalvik. You do not have to use XML. All you can do in XML and more you can do in Java code on Android. Therefore you are welcome to write your own UI components and reuse them as you would in any real Java application.

However. You have to use android API and you can not use Java2D or Swing because it is not available in Dalvik.

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