My day:

Creates flutter project.
Gradle failed
Update Android studio and gradle
Gradle failed
Uninstall a Android studio (at least I thought I did)
I install Android studio
Gradle failed
Repeat least three steps 2x
Gradle works!
Flutter failed.

:(

So I've decided to go about converting a Java project that I've been working on to Kotlin a little bit at a time. I started out with basic entity classes converting them to simple `data class`es in Kotlin.

Eventually, I got to my first beast of a class to refactor. This class had over 40 service classes depending on it, so even a little hiccup would throw everything into chaos.

I finish all of the changes on all of the dependent classes, update the tests, and the configurations (as necessary), and I was finally ready to spin up the app to test for any breaking changes I may have introduced...

Well - I broke everything! But I was sure I couldn't have! So what the hell happened?

Turns out that as I was building my project with a Gradle watch, at one point something failed to compile, which threw an unhandled exception in the gradle daemon that was never reported.

So when I tried to run my app, gradle would continually re-throw the error in the app I asked it to run...

After turning the daemon off and on again, the app worked like a charm.

I dont even know what gradle is but based purely off of the rants on here I'm never going to use it.

Better gradle they said.
Builds faster they said...
There is a difference between faster and less slower.

Gradle Build Running

I hate gradle.

Ability to complaining about "Gradle is too slow in my laptop!" to my dad to get a better one.

Saying thanks to Google.

Gradle, gradle, gradle,
You're made out of c,
Gradle, gradle, gradle,
Package this for me

That's really fucking neat gradle.
And i had to wait 5 mins for this shit to show up

Me: Gradle stop
Gradle:

Unfortunately I might not live long enough to see this task completed 🙁

When gradle builds for over 1 hour and you start thinking how life would have been much easier if you were a panda.

Gradle. Fucking gradle.

Gradle at its finest 🤗😂😂

Team Android == gradle build...;

When you Start Up Android Studio to do some development but spend 1h fixing random gradle errors.

the #1 android dev excuse for legitimately slacking off

You guys been saying something about Gradle build times being not accurate?

Asking a wise man: How did you learn patience?

Wise man: by building with gradle.

16 GB RAM and my IntelliJ can't handle a gradle refresh.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How to identify an Android developer?

Android Developers 😂😂

Android studio gradle takes so much time to build. I decided to draw something to kill time whenever it build.
Day 3: Starlord is nearly complete.

"Describe your life in 3 words"

Me:

But can it run Android Studio smoothly?

Dear gradle, no offense but I believe Rome took less time to build!

It all makes sense now...

A young guy I work with burst into tears today, I had no idea what happened so I tried to comfort him and ask what was up.

It appears his main client had gone nuts with him because they wanted him to make an internet toolbar (think Ask.com) and he politely informed them toolbars doesn't really exist anymore and it wouldn't work on things like modern browsers or mobile devices.

Being given a polite but honest opinion was obviously something the client wasn't used to and knowing the guy was a young and fairly inexperienced, they started throwing very personal insults and asking him exactly what he knows about things (a lot more than them).

So being the big, bold, handsome senior developer I am, I immediately phoned the client back and told them to either come speak to me face-to-face and apologise to him in person or we'd terminate there contract with immediate effect. They're coming down tomorrow...

So part my rant, part a rant on behalf of a young developer who did nothing wrong and was treated like shit, I think we've all been there.

We'll see how this goes! Who the hell wants a toolbar anyway?!