Managing Android layouts, there must be a better way

Question

I'm trying to sort the layout for one of my Android apps, but I'm finding layouts a nightmare.

Principally I have to have a portrait and landscape layout for normal, small and large screens. So thats 6 layouts to maintain to start with, let alone having to launch the app on three emulators each time because my UI widets don't load in the built in previewer.

I might be showing my ignorance as a fairly new developer, but there must be a better way!

Are there any tools out there to help with Android layouts?

Thanks

Answer 1

You dont need to have that many layouts. Design only as many as you need, and never use absolute values, aditionally try to make everything look nice using fill_parent and wrap_content for you layout_width & layout_height tags. Android does most of the work it self. This article contains a lot of usefull info: Supportng multiple screens