This problem is driving me crazy. Basically I want to have a tutorial for my Android app that lets the user go forward and backward through a few tutorial screens. I have four children which just consist of a relativelayout with an imageview and textview for each child. For some reason the when I show the viewflipper in my activity the 1st child is gone or invisible because the screen is black. When I click next, I can see the 2nd child and when I go back then I can see the first child. I don't understand, and the most frustrating part of the problem is, I only have this problem on the Motorola Cliq running 1.5, the nexus one and droid show the first child fine.