It would be interesting to hear the comments other developers who had written an app that used stock UI components and didn't do anything too crazy. Games aside, a large percentage of the other apps on the marketplace do relatively sane things with common components.
I developed a very simple app (BenPaper); it runs fine on 1.5, all the way up to 2.2. It handles things like device rotation without me writing any code to deal with that because all the layouts are liquid etc. etc. Admittedly it's a very simple app, but on the whole I was impressed with the defragmentedness of the platform.
Compare that to writing a J2ME app, where you have to use a build tool like Polish to build 18 different binaries, run 6 different emulators on your development machine, keep an up to date list of devices and their hardware characteristics...
I developed a very simple app (BenPaper); it runs fine on 1.5, all the way up to 2.2. It handles things like device rotation without me writing any code to deal with that because all the layouts are liquid etc. etc. Admittedly it's a very simple app, but on the whole I was impressed with the defragmentedness of the platform.
Compare that to writing a J2ME app, where you have to use a build tool like Polish to build 18 different binaries, run 6 different emulators on your development machine, keep an up to date list of devices and their hardware characteristics...