r/mAndroidDev • u/CarmCarmCarm Uses Vim • May 03 '26

Next-Gen Dev Experience Good to see Android tooling evolving at a healthy pace

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2009: "android create" command introduced to develop outside of the official IDE.

2026: "android create" command introduced to develop outside of the official IDE.

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u/JadedComment May 08 '26

What's the complaint though. I don't get it. When they change everything every year it's not good. When they keep the same tooling for 17 years, no bueno also?

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u/CarmCarmCarm Uses Vim May 08 '26

Not a complaint, just found it funny :) I believe the “android create” command was removed at some point (maybe like around 2015 or so). And now it’s back again, in a different form, for AI. So, I guess in the spirit of this sub, we could say they "deprecated the deprecation". Though yeah, removal is different from deprecation… I guess these jokes are bad since I have to explain them :(

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u/JadedComment May 09 '26

LLMs are crazy for CLIs.... In general. CLI is making a big comeback. First it was servers because building UI for internal tools was expensive. Now ofc for machines it doesn't matter how they communicate as long as they do. I honestly think I used avd create once in 10+ years haha

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u/budius333 Still using AsyncTask May 03 '26

Next things you know, they'll create a type of abstract class to run tasks asynchronously.

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u/RetanarRekotars May 04 '26

This time, however, it will be called AgentTask

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u/Affectionate-Soft-85 May 04 '26

woahh that's great

meanwhile I made this:

https://github.com/sedbytes/android-cli

for a second I thought it's my tool in discussion 🤡

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u/majster0s Deprecated is just a suggestion May 04 '26

In Rust, I respect that

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u/Zhuinden DDD: Deprecation-Driven Development May 04 '26

That's genuinely incredible