OP here.

1. Instead of using a ListAdapter, I've provided a "BoundCollectionAdapter": http://depoll.github.com/bindroid/docs/com/bindroid/ui/Bound... If you use a TrackableCollection (or any other list), this adapter will track the changes to that collection.

2. I don't know a huge amount about Jackson -- I've used my own libraries for JSON serialization within my apps since they need to interoperate across Windows Phone, Android, and iOS. Taking a quick look at the tutorials there, it looks like it should play very nicely with Bindroid.