Having worked with WPF and trying to write Android-apps it's easy to despair. They've taken the worst of WPF (XML) without offering any of the goods (data-bind

Having worked with WPF and trying to write Android-apps it's easy to despair. They've taken the worst of WPF (XML) without offering any of the goods (data-binding, rapid application development). You feel like you're back in the stone-age of computing, only this time with XML instead of objects. This often means you have to do lots of UI-wiring in code indirectly, based on handles, and due to Java's lack of functional constructs, even wiring up a simple event-handler becomes 6 lines of tedious, annoymous class instantiation nonsense. It's horrible. Had anything like WPF been available in any stable or unstable form, I would have jumped at it in an instant.