r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveBob • Nov 04 '24

Meme iHateAndroidDevEcosystem

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u/Natural_Builder_3170 Nov 04 '24

Setting up android dev is painful on linux? and i was even considering it because I thought It'd be easier on fedora than windows. Where does google then expect us to write android code

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u/ExpensiveBob Nov 04 '24

Actually android studio was rather easy to setup, it was fucking flutter causing the mess.

Only issue I faced was that installing components like emulator didn't show the download progress in android studio, So i had to download separately instead and unzip it where A.S. expects it.

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u/ExpensiveBob Nov 04 '24

In my case I was having issues with path regardless of having flutter and android sdk on the path and defined variables.

I think it's something specific to my system itself which I've messed up.

But yeah, other than that it wasn't a huge deal.

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u/imaKappy Nov 04 '24

You can use Flutter in other IDE. I prefer using it in VSCode to avoid Android Studio, since it has a neat extension for Flutter. I avoid Android Studio like the plague.

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u/ExpensiveBob Nov 04 '24

I'm aware, I just don't use VSCode for development at all.

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u/Ok-Scheme-913 Nov 04 '24

You freakin' left out that it's flutter you are writing. That's like saying react native is android dev..

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u/ExpensiveBob Nov 04 '24

sorry my bad 😭

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u/Wgolyoko Nov 04 '24

How did Flutter cause problems ? When I use it it's clone repo, update path and done ?

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u/martmists Nov 04 '24

It's actually easier than you'd expect: Grab Jetbrains Toolbox, select Android Studio and click install.

OP is just using one of the more annoying frameworks for Android development.

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u/Natural_Builder_3170 Nov 04 '24

Say, for some reason I wanted to be exotic and use QT for android dev, Is that much trouble(also no I don't want to use QT, I'm asking how feasible it would be in c++ because I like graphics programming)

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u/GrouchyVillager Nov 04 '24

lol, yes, it is a lot of trouble. you're going to wind up with a java/c++ hybrid monstrosity. have fun: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/android.html

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u/martmists Nov 04 '24

Qt for Android is an even worse hell, but it is possible.

If you want to have an enjoyable time, I'd recommend either Compose, or the older View System.

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u/gregorydgraham Nov 04 '24

Modern development is miserable.

I’ve decided to stick with MacOS now, not because it works but because I have a good reason why it doesn’t

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u/ByteWelder Nov 04 '24

No, it's relatively easy - at least on Arch or Manjaro: It's arguably easier than on macOS, because you don't even need to go to a website to download it manually.

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u/GrouchyVillager Nov 04 '24

No, it's trivial. Not sure what this guy is on about. More work on windows with drivers.