What do you hate most in ANDROID DEVELOPMENT except gradle loading

Thats 50% of android development.

It used to be Java and all of its ceremony to get things done. Like 300 lines, two classes, a factory and a bunch of getters and setters to accomplish something ordinary. But it's much better with Kotlin.

I can't think of something I really hate about it today, except the long building time.

@Artemix I offer these people a web app that they can access from any modern browser instead - which excludes Safari, ofc 😂

It's Java but even more verbose and boilerplate

Java

Luckily we now have Kotlin.

Preview sucks sometimes. If you are worrying about gradle build time then running emulator will break you down lol. Also the boilerplate code is also a major issue and updates to the studio and emulator are of different level shit. But its android studio, one of the finest softwares in the market so i love it anyways.

Never got past it, gave up.

Async Tasks?

Awful C++ support.

All my dev is done in Xcode because Android C++ support is so horrible (good luck setting up a debugger, I couldn't in 5 years) and praying it works on Android. And printf. Lots of printf.

The NDK is a mess. "Oh yeah we have on one hand a language with a garbage collector, and the other can use refcount .... Nah let's choose the worst: manual memory by default!!!".

Oh, and despite "supporting" it, there is NO Android docs on the NDK (apart from the introduction). Have fun reading Oracle doc and piecing together how it works.

Android developer!!

I hate those mother fuckers, all of them feel super special and unique, don't know why, but is like a pattern I've seen.

They feel geniuses 'cause they search how to fix errors on Google. REALLY?????

@arcioneo yeah its true. :) :)

Dex, when it starts duplicating classes for no reason, uh...