Earlier in this chapter, we discussed some of the many factors that responsiveness can be related to. One of the central arguments is the positioning and sizing of elements (that's why we spent some time on multi-res bitmaps, alignment strategies, anchors, and layouts). Responsiveness is also about considering the actual environment where applications live. That's why we focused on good strategies to preview and test your UI on different scenarios (such as Multi-Device Preview and the LivePreview app). In the background (as we discussed in earlier chapters), the Style concept is there to cover one of the most significant differences across platforms: the general visual aspect and some UI conventions.
There are, however, aspects that are hard to catch even when using all these technologies altogether. For example, some UI conventions are really platform-specific and need to be cooked down inside component behavior.
For example, even...