I wish there was a method of developing software for Android that brought me joy

mcc

There are some types of software development that I will do them just to do them

Android I cannot get myself to dev for unless either I'm being paid or I think the task is so important to be worth it

This is a problem because I use Android *constantly*, many days I spend more time in Android than a desktop OS, and there's a certain amount of software I'd like to write

mcc

I feel joy writing React for web with TS

I feel joy writing TUIs in Rust. I think if I ever learned Iced I'd find joy in this too*.

Kotlin I admire elements of the design but it feels slow to write and the idiosyncratic Android API I feel like is constantly fighting back at me

* Feel free here to convince me I'd be happier using egui

Evan Prodromou

@mcc what about PWAs?

mcc

@evan Considering it

mcc

@evan Theres a limit tho, like, one of the things I want is a image browser app tailored to my needs and that would need to integrate into Android api in a specific way. Like PWAs are great for many things but as operating system utilities they may not work

Sean Tilley

@mcc @evan A lot of devs seem to like using React Native, maybe that might be worth exploring?

I’m kind of in the same boat. Despite being a relatively open system, the barrier to entry for development is quite high, mostly due to how hard it is to get started and actually do something.