> Android by comparison feels more like it was designed to look pretty with usability as a second class citizen.
I do think that this comes from the code base not being very good. The base layout and view classes have hundreds of thousand lines of codes, the layout algorithm is quadratic to the number of views. It was originally designed for digital cameras, not for phones. The base classes use many bit fields as well instead of enums, they don't look like Java.
Plus the strange back button concept which comes from the camera.
All this means developers waste a lot of time wrestling the framework.
I do think that this comes from the code base not being very good. The base layout and view classes have hundreds of thousand lines of codes, the layout algorithm is quadratic to the number of views. It was originally designed for digital cameras, not for phones. The base classes use many bit fields as well instead of enums, they don't look like Java.
Plus the strange back button concept which comes from the camera.
All this means developers waste a lot of time wrestling the framework.