I also did some J2ME stuff back in 2003, most with Sharp and Nokia devices.
I read somewhere that some in the Android team are C converts doing their first Java gig.
Have you seen how broken are the generated Renderscript bindings? They don't have anything to do with Java conventions and feel completely out of place.
Haven't looked at render script yet. Still scratching head on the layout engine stuff and View infrastructure. It's fugly. I usually write C#+WPF and C++/Qt and HTML/Java EE and all of those are massively nicer to deal with.
If you are two days in and still getting around how Views and layout works I wouldn't call it a mess yet. You are still pretty early into it. Its not messy its just new to you.
From my experience once you get past the initial hump of learning their basic APIs and conventions its a very easy to work with platform. Maybe I am biased because I spend a lot of time with it. I also really like the tooling. How is it acting unstable for you?
I read somewhere that some in the Android team are C converts doing their first Java gig.
Have you seen how broken are the generated Renderscript bindings? They don't have anything to do with Java conventions and feel completely out of place.