Have you used Qt's layouts? The problem with Android's layout system (if I understand it correctly) is that you specify how things are arranged relative to each other, so you never really know where something is. Added to that you have counter-intuitive behavior from things being calculated at time of addition rather than time of display (can't remember exactly, but I ran into something like that).

Qt is more declarative. I forget the function calls but in pseudocode you can do things like horizLayout.add(Text("abc").setFixedWith(12)); horizLayout.add(Text("XYZ").setExpand().setAlign(kCentered)); horizLayout.add(Text("").setFixedWidth(12)); and you get something like: [abc | XYZ | ] (where [] is the width of the layout, and | separates each element.) I've found it to be pretty intuitive.