This sounds very similar to using 9 slice grids.

On Jan 28, 9:07 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well the main motivation for designing Fragment was to help write
> applications that can scale easily across different screen sizes and device
> types.  So, going forward, that is the solution.  Now for today developing
> such apps that also work with older versions of the platform, there are the
> existing APIs for having different layouts for different screen sizes etc.
>  I'd like to make some form of the new facilities available to apps
> targeting older platforms, but don't have anything I can commit to right
> now.
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> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:43 PM, davemac <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Maybe a hint or two at least? Will we really have the same activities
> > for both phones and tablets? Or will it be easier to make those
> > separate?
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> > - dave
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> > On Jan 28, 7:54 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I have some stuff I'd like to do for a solution for fragments, but
> > nothing
> > > to announce quite yet.  I'd like to say -- "go ahead and use fragments,
> > and
> > > you'll have a solution for older devices" but am not quite yet ready to
> > > really commit to that. :}
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> > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > > What are the best practices to maintain an app that would run on both
> > > > Honeycomb and pre-Honeycomb?  I do want to make use of Fragments and
> > > > the other goodies, but I have a feeling this will be a major
> > > > P.i.t.A.   I certainly don't want to maintain 2 separate apps.
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