As RyanZAG explained, your multiple layout files should only re-organize fragments.
Yes Android dev is hard, with multiple versions, sizes, formats and bugs. But there is documentation, tools and example to adress them. Deal with it.
If you are willing to try again, as so many things have changed since Eclair, you can have a look at this exemple where you will see how you can use new API and a fallback when they are not available: http://code.google.com/p/android-protips-location/source/bro...
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory states that: "in 1980, the price of a 16-kW (kiloword, equivalent to 32kB) core memory board that fitted into a DEC Q-bus computer was around US $3,000."
This one is a 4kW or 9kB from 1983, I'll let you do the math!
Pencil is a free, open source and good prototyping tool.
http://pencil.evolus.vn/
It works perfectly on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
It allows you to prototype web apps, iphone apps, and Android apps.
ActionBar is not a community shim anymore, a compatibility library down to gingerbread is provided and supported by Google: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/ap...
As RyanZAG explained, your multiple layout files should only re-organize fragments.
Yes Android dev is hard, with multiple versions, sizes, formats and bugs. But there is documentation, tools and example to adress them. Deal with it.
If you are willing to try again, as so many things have changed since Eclair, you can have a look at this exemple where you will see how you can use new API and a fallback when they are not available: http://code.google.com/p/android-protips-location/source/bro...