What is annoying about Android, is that whatever language you use, YOU NEED SOME JAVA GLUE to make your app, and the signature thing. When I tried making the "hello world" apk I was astonished to see how hard it is compared to Linux dev. There has to be something wrong that led to the disgrace that is Android Studio (+10GB or something, I just recall it being ultra bloat) to start up with android dev.

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

There has to be something wrong that led to the disgrace that is Android Studio (+10GB or something, I just recall it being ultra bloat) to start up with android dev.

I agree. There's something just a bit off about the whole ecosystem.

I think it may reflect Google wanting to appear FOSS while not actually giving up control.

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[–] tal@olio.cafe [S] 1 point 1 year ago*

When I tried making the “hello world” apk I was astonished to see how hard it is compared to Linux dev.

I mean, to be fair, if you're doing the APK, you're also doing the packaging. If you compare that to building and packaging for all the Linux distros out there, especially considering all the different packaging systems, doing up a single APK is probably a lot easier.

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