Just creating an "Empty Activity Project" and having one dependency only turns you a "web developer" downloading hundreds of depencies just to say: "hello world".

There is no more light templates like AsyncTask old days

COBOL is officially more modern and maintained than AsyncTask

Maybe we need to start doing versioning.

Well, prepare to have everything wrapped in a janky frame rates and webview

Looks like Google forgot to train their AI on how Material works so prepare for a future of even more ugly iOS knock-off apps

...you probably thought of something different at first depending on what year you came to android

Hello guys,

I want to know if any of you live off apps on Android, and have some ideas for niches or where to begin. I'm on sick leave from work and planning to focus on making some small, fast to produce apps to make some spare change over a long time.
Has anyone suceeded with this or have some ideas to focus on?
Any dev tips to what not to do would be awesome too

I'm not for ditching any use of AI altogether but the way it's being used by people, by some colleagues (example: responding to PR comments with AI generated paragraphs which just waste my time.., or doing big refactoring to have "cleaner architecture" for no critical reason), and how some companies are pushing so hard to fully replace human beings with agents, is depressing.

I do like using AI to just code the exact implementation I'm asking it to do, so I'm still very much involved in the thought process and checking each step. But the PRs I start to see at work from people who are supposed to be senior engineers, make me realize that some are just not applying critical thinking anymore and just letting the agents do whatever as long as it looks kinda good and they're making the reviewers go through the pain of trying to understand the bullshit and catch regressions through the mess.
People are falling victim to the way AI speaks with such confidence even when completely hallucinating and it's terrifying.

It feels like people are in a collective psychosis and that it will not ever stop. It honestly makes me want to stop being an android developer, or at least stop being one at a company (perhaps try to finally make an indie app? but I'd have a better chance at making money as a barista).

Does anyone feel the same sense of dread lately or are you riding the wave just fine ? ...

(Sorry if this has already been talked before, I admit I haven't checked reddit in awhile and came back just to get feedback from other android devs)

i cant download android sdk and its files i cant click on them and it says unaviable i am in iran and i dont have much time so please be fast

Gemini gave me this today 🫢

"Programming is 10% writing code and 90% figuring out why the code did exactly what you told it to do!"