N+1) Android vendors who think they know what they are doing will make customizations that utterly screw you (e.g., mucking with date/time pickers to the point

N+1) Android vendors who think they know what they are doing will make customizations that utterly screw you (e.g., mucking with date/time pickers to the point that they are busted on some random set of phones). N+2) Oh, so you want to make a buildbot that does stable builds based on known versions of tools and libraries? What a quaint notion. [Can we just say that Activities and Intents died, or at least achieved effective bankruptcy as actual abstractions, around the time the 32nd flag modifying behavior was added? At some point you need to step back, take an honest look at what developers are actually doing and realize that things are simply not working out. All that anyone does with the UI framework is to try different things and "twist knobs" until the apps seems to work, and hope that it doesn't break much in the future.]