Android Development - So Easy Yet Not So Easy

I have recently started playing around with Android.  Given the success of the Droid, Droid Eris, and what looks like a phone from Google, the NexusOne, I figure the Android is going to be either the number one or number 2 development platform for mobile devices.  In either case, I want to be able to write apps for my Droid, which, I love.
So this week I have attempted to start development.  I have read through the online documentation, which, in typical Google fashion, is fairly complete and detailed. The Android Developer Guide includes step by step instructions for installation of the SDK, Eclipse Plugin, and samples to get you programming quickly.
Of course, nothing is perfect.  So here are a couple of issues with the tools.

• It appears that sometimes changed resources don’t get updated when the emulator is re-launched.  Even though I’ve set the flag to Wipe User Data.
• I can get one version of the Google Maps sample to run correctly but not another.  It seems that the Sample Tutorial on the Web site doesn’t work for 2.0 or 2.0.1 emulators on my machine, but the sample bundled with the toolkits do.  To be honest, it appears that the only difference is WHERE the MapView is instantiated, but I am still a noob at this, so I am probably mistaken

Is this going to be enough to cause me to give up?  Heck no.  Even though these two items are frustrating, the toolkit is still well put together and I expect to be building apps in no time.  My next posts will detail the building of an app.