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Android Development be like:
- Has great idea for app or feature
- Boots up PC
- Starts android studio and creates new project
- Build error
- Gradle build failed
- Android studio crashes
- Java Error
- Shutsdown PC
- Goes and hangs himself
Pretty accurate if you ask me 😀😀😀😎18 -
How to become Android Developer with zero Programming knowledge?
1. Goto "About" option in your Android mobile.
2. Click "Build Number" continuously 5 times.
*tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap*
Congratulations
"You are a Developer"
now :p5 -
Rob :Truth or Dare
Android Dev:Dare
Rob: Uninstall and reinstall your android studio with SDKs @50kbps
Android Dev:Truth2 -
Problems with Android development
1. Android Studio is shitte
2. Android API is shitte
3. Gradle is shitte
4. Emulator is shitte
5. My life is shitte20 -
*trying to learn Android programming*
Oh shoot, Android studio is eating lots of RAM
...
The hell Chrome!! Don't compete with him!
(First time i saw my swap was ever used)8 -
*Looks away from computer screen*
Android studio update is available
*Drinks coffee*
Android studio update is available
*Cuddles with cat*
Android studio update is available
*Debugging app*
Android studio update is available
* "Mom" *
Android studio update is available6 -
Give a man an Android app and he will thank you for a day. Teach a man how to create Android app and he will curse you for a lifetime.2
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Android Relative layout is similar to Microsoft Word.
Move the button a little bit and earth moves from it's orbit :/8 -
!rant
Last night my girlfriend was extremely happy to make her first Android hello world application.4 -
Android development is such an enormous realm. It's simply incredible.
Even after more than 2 years of programming android apps, I can experience a different exception every day!8 -
Me: Hey, Android, how do I do [abc]?
Android: Oh, that's actually quite easy! All you need is permissi..
Me: Oh, you know what, nevermind. I'd rather fuck an industrial fan.5 -
Me: Yes! I'm finally ready to upload my first Android app to PlayStore, im so excited!!
Google: Make sure to remove all the Log calls from your code.
Me: *Finds out that there's no way Android studio can make it for you*
FUUUUUUUU**10 -
As an Android developer i keep on looking at every single app as if am going to write it again as code3
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Le Me: well it is the time to go back on that Android project and resume the work.
*Open Android Studio, open the project.
*Wait 10 minutes for build/index
*error: gradle outdated, that is ok, update it.
*error: some library needs update
*error: R not found
*error: internal IDE error.
*Clean Project: PC hangs, Fan go so fast..
Shit ! I even not touched the code !8 -
Kids upset about their phones not getting android N. Back in our days we where upset about losing our crayons.1
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Steps to work on android studio -
1] Open android studio
2] Wait for an hour.
3] Wait for the build.
4] Build failed.
5] Get frustrated, close it.
6] Repeat 1-5.10 -
JAVA_HOME = jdk1.8
Android Studio JDK location = jdk1.8
studio.bat JDK=jdk1.8
Run Android Device Manger - sorry you need jdk1.8 and you have jdk1.7
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafuuuuckyouuuuuaaaaaaaa🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬3 -
I made an Android app that on random interval shows android notification with sound like Facebook notification.
Few girls in the office asking me whose messaging me this much on Facebook Messenger. They think the girls are responding to my messages and you know in no time the gossip made me famous.
It's kinda cool being a programmer 😎16 -
Now that Android P is officially named "Pie",
It makes me wonder what they'd name Android Q?😂
I'm not even aware of any desert that starts with a "Q". 😋22 -
After writing JavaScript codes in Sublime Text I realise how easy it is in Android Studio with intelliJ.
You may be slow Android Studio, but you are smart. And I love you for that.2 -
Fuck Android Studio Fuck Android Studio Fuck Android Studio Fuck Android Studio Fuck Android Studio Fuck Android Studio Fuck Android Studio Fuck Android Studio Fuck Android Studio Fuck Android Studio Fuck Android Studio Fuck Android Studio Fuck Android Studio Fuck Android Studio Fuck Android Studio.... Fuck this shit hole to the end of time8
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$Me: I want to start creating my own android app.
$Me: Let's start by installing android studio
*Goes to download AS*
$AS: That'll be 4gb of your disk space
$Me: well nevermind then
Really? 4gb for a fcking IDE and some build tools?5 -
I never rooted and Android device. Now I have until tomorrow to root a Samsung Tablet, update android version, install Microsoft Power Apps and show to CEO.10
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Confused as hell: Android TextView is equivalent to iOS UILabel, and iOS UITextView is somehow equivalent to Android EditText! 😡😡😡
Learning Android should be hard for an iOS Dev!7 -
I'm working on a project that integrates your Android phone with your PC. Stuff like file transfer, sending SMS and notification sync. I just had an idea for an awesome feature. Started researching and found that the Android API exposes exactly what I need. Full of motivation I started coding until I realized that the permission I need cannot be granted to third-party apps. Happened the second time. Fml
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Me: Let us make this little update to our android app
Google: It looks like you didn't open Android Studio for few days.. Well, ye have to update all the environment.. TATAAA !!!3 -
It really annoys me when someone opens an app in Android phones and then leave it open in the background.10
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Working on a damn old Android app's source code so it's usable in more recent versions (back when 2.2 Froyo was new). So much has changed in the Android SDK...1
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Zebra tc51 with a price tag of 1299.99usd. No power supply, no cable, 720p screen, snapdragon 650 soc. This is the RED camera in android 🤦♂️
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Just got myself an iPhone se. Was proud android fan for 4 years.
No hate, but android apps really feel like cheap knock-offs.
I'm never coming back.24 -
Jake Wharton
https://github.com/JakeWharton
https://twitter.com/JakeWharton
Used to not work for Google /Android, but since the entire Android community uses about everything he makes, and then everything he touches turns into gold and becomes part of the Android SDK sooner or later, because his work is so useful and good. He now works for Google / Android. He's one of the Android gods, a true rockstar dev!2 -
Thought the day would never come but... I'm starting to hate android as an operating system...
It's just becoming so inconsistent and fragmented, it's almost at windows level of inconsistent.
Now either google should start regulating the app store and android itself or completely ditch android as a complete stand alone OS.
I would personally seperate android into a runtime and focus on fuschia by building the android runtime into it, that way it could pull system UI element design and such rather than have the user build apps that look completely out of place and don't follow rules like dark mode, theming and the such...
I'm not going to jump ship into iOS because fuck iOS but just really hope google really starting tightening android up else I feel like it's just going to starting breaking more and more into a steaming mess.5 -
Deleting 3 of the 4 Android sdk folders. Why not update one instead. Getting another 90GB of space back which is good for me.
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Just started android development with android studio 2.1 and spent 30% of the time for actual coding and 70% solving ui rendering issues!1
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Watching an android wear on iOS video and they are complaining that android wear is limited on iOS and they love the look and usability of android wear compared to watch OS...
Of course it's bloody limited, you can't even use Apple devices with android so be happy you even get basic support :-P
(Yes I am a Google fan boy so android for lyf)3 -
Xamarin vs Android Studio?
Pros and Cons?
Plan to get into Android Development in my holidays. I am very experienced with C# decent understanding of Java. Which one should I go for?5 -
Checking Android Pie changes.
First frase:
"Android 9 harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to give you more from your phone. Now it's smarter, faster and adapts as you use it."
Ok... So all Android Pies will have the possibility of becoming self-aware? If they have A.I. ...2 -
I belive that except stock android, every other custom android UI sucks.
Especially Samsung UI and MIUI
Who else shares my opinion?7 -
Anyone know the reason why Google removed the Android SDK from the Android Studio Installer? It's making me work harder in setting it up :/5
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Well, in Google I/O, Android P Beta is announced for Android devices.
I could see it supported by Google, Sony, OnePlus devices. Even rolling out for Oppo, Vivo, MI.
No Samsung? 🤔wondering why??5 -
thought to start my day by working on my android app
ended up in watching tutorials and other stuff without evening opening android studio1 -
Compass readings on Android phone might get messed up when iPhone gets close to it.
I have azimuth showing in my app, we wanted to check if it's working and we put an Android phone on the table and iPhone with compass app running. Android showed 20 degrees less. Colleague picked up iPhone and azimuth on Android changed by 20 degrees :D2 -
Last night I looked at an Android app.
Going to put it bluntly, I don't like java much.
But Android takes it to a whole new level.
I was talking to our (SlimRoms) framework dev about how the database transactions used to take 400ms, and it was cut down to 10ms by, changing to xml with some kind of a reflector (so xml would be saved in the background).
This is atrocious. As a web developer, I live in a world where you can do thousands of transactions in that time (albeit on faster hardware).
So how is it that all of the abstractions in Android add up to a single read/insertion in Android (and I'm talking about an app written by Google) takes 400ms?
Every time I go in that channel to talk to them, I find something screwed up. Gah.4 -
What are some good android developer communities? Looking for somewhere to learn and ask questions that might not be code related, so can't be on stack overflow. What do you use? I use android for hobby projects only.5
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I started up my pc and thought by myself lets build an android app and try to teach myself some new skills in android.
*Starts up android studio*
Hi user, i got 116 package updates for you enjoy!
*Turn on updates and starts watching old series to kill time* -
Working on my first Android app. 🤔🤷🏾♂️
I've heard mixed reviews about building Android apps. I've used Xcode to build apps before, I'm sure it's the same lol 😂20 -
I was working on an android project this morning.I started android studio.
I went and made a cup of coffee and had it,came back still gradle was building -
when u code on Android Studio, u wish all your error will be solve by enter alt+enter.. its a wonderful world1
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I really miss the android Gingerbread of my Samsung galaxy Y phone.
I still wish to have a plain and simple device for myself. -
Started learning Android development in Kotlin.
My first impressions:
- Kotlin is good, but class syntax is not very appealing
- Overall it seems to be quite easy, at least the basic stuff
- Android Studio is a fucking memory hog, RIP my RAM
- As good IntelliJ is as bad is Android Studio somehow
- Emulator seems to be really advanced which I like8 -
Spent 10 minutes investigating why I can't hit a certain breakpoint. Find out I put it on a comment by mistake.
Fuck Android Studio 😡9 -
This morning, I decided I'm gonna do some Android development. I opened Android Studio (closing 2 Firefox windows to reclaim enough RAM), launched the Android Emulator and then proceeded with my coding.
Since, I've almost finished a prototype app, translated a good 100 strings, had lunch, updated 2 server and THE EMULATOR IS STILL BOOTING!
My Android dev friend tells me this "just happens sometimes". WHAT?!?
I'm genuinely starting to think that good software doesn't exist anymore... -
Android guy here:
I consider myself a solid android developer, however my UX and UI Designing sucks ass, any tips on how I could improve?11 -
Today I will talk about Android OS being stupid.
Android lets u as a user move installed apps to external storage = microSD card.
However what is stupid about it is that only a small part of the app will be moved. For example, if you have an app taking 400 MB of storage, then "moving" it will move only about 100 MB of data to microSD card, while the remaining 300 MB of data will remain on the internal storage...
In Android 11 this is still not improved. Imagine having 11 versions of OS over 11 years and never making a crucial feature work properly. Meanwhile app sizes grow ever larger
Disappointing.5 -
Android stu. make you feel you're not up to date anymore with all the frequent download component.
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Why does everything about Android have to be this verbose, convoluted and complicated?
Why are there no simple solutions to most problems? I have worked with Flutter and Go and none of these have the same level of complexity as Android.
It’s almost as if the Android team lists out the possible solutions to a problem and intentionally pick the hardest and difficult to understand.5 -
I have been an android developer since long time, yet android migrate everything from Java to Kotlin
But am really worried to migrate everything from Java to Kotlin or begin this phase can you please help and tell me where is the best way to learn kotlin and get easily adapted3 -
When you are a beginner Android Developer and you are trying to translate one sentence in a Medium article on Android Development 😑
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How do you background work in Android? Easy, just use one of the following (which may or may not work as expected depending on what version of Android it's running on, or how long it happens to run for, or what's in the background or foreground, or what triggers it, or what wind the direction is blowing in, or how long since you last gave a fuck)
background Service, or foreground Service, or IntentService, or AlarmManager, or JobScheduler, or WorkManager, or FUCK YOU ANDROID -
Just enrolled my Nexus 5x in the Android O beta.
I am very impressed so far with the differences between N and O
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dear Android devs, how many of you work in a Team of more Android devs? And are you more productive in a Team than being solo ?12
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Android Development. Question to those who are experienced:
There is IntelliJ and AndroidStudio. I know that IntelliJ is mainly for Java Desktop Development but I've heard that it can be used for Android development too. Android Studio is clunky. Which one is better for lightweight Android development? Oh, and why is AndroidStudio not in the JetbrainsToolbox?2 -
I was android dev for two years. Always used real devices. Now I've created android emulator. Looks like it will boot forever. Any advice?6
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Be developing a react native app with create-react-native-app.
Almost done, time to eject! Let's install Android studio. 6 GiB free on /tmp, that should work. yaourt - S android-studio
Oh no! Nit enough space on tmp! Ffs and then that is without the Android sdk!4 -
Definitely Android 8.0 is neat.
And it's faster.
I think Android has developed a lot.
Isn't that right? -
Hi, I need some advice about android app development. I am a front end web developer and I want to get into android development. I have created a simple restaurant app using phonegap and knockoutjs but I didn't like the performance. Can you recommend how should I get into android development? Nativescript and ionic also lack performance as far as I have researched. Any help is appreciated.11
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Been working on an Android app for some time. Silly me too lazy to use VCS. Anyway, one day android studio just could not build my project and errors that should not be errors popped up everywhere and nothing I did fixed the problem. Somehow my project got corrupted. 3 hours later of googling and trying to recover my project I had to resort to creating a new project and manually port the old files in one by one :( but all I have to say is WHAT THE FUCK ANDROID STUDIO3
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Does anyone of you ever generate PDF documents under Android?
It is a task in our current project and I don't find a lot (usable) libraries out there. Our first try was iText but under iText 7.1 they no longer support Android 6.5 -
I want to try some Android Development. I already have basic understanding of both C# and Java. C# even a little bit more. But the language is not the problem.
I just can not decide wether I should use Xamarin or do native development using Android Studio.
What would you suggest me, guys? :-)7 -
Hello my fellow Android nerds! Spent the last few hours coming up with this...
Surely there is a better/easier way?
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My first android app, it got me into the field of android development.
It was a simple wallpaper app for Android but it is my most precious project.
Wall Bucket is the name of the app (shameless self-promotion) -
My Android professor: "Let's target Android 2.1. What is that compat library Android Studio included? Nah, let's remove it." He's on par with the latest features for sure!7
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Dammit, why can't the Android SDK use enums!? Figuring out which int constant in which class/interface is relevant to which parameter can be a major PITA...
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What's the best way to turn a phone into a dedicated http server? I have a useless android lying about. Wanna turn it into a server.
Linux tools on android? Or forget about android and install Linux on it from scratch? Which flavour?
Any tips?2 -
Alright, apparently, I can't Google.
I am wondering, is it possible, to develop an android app without android studio? And probably without Java?
My idea was to make a web app using mean stack and then just fit it into browser widget and voila.
I also don't believe that all of the apps I'm using are made with android studio...
What should I check out for better understanding of the whole android app development thing?6 -
Has anyone heard of anbox? It's something that they say could run android apps on Ubuntu. Is it worth using? Or am I better off with an android vm? If vm which android version do you people recommend?2
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Is it just me or is android development just a pain in the ass? Ive done universal windows development before and it was great, but android just seems like a mess to me2
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just finished a prototype for my android app, when i all of the sudden find out about flutter and dart, and i have the fucking urge to rework EVERYTHING just because i fucking hate android studio and java for it verbosity
android studio is good in basically helping you limp along with java, but when i saw how smooth dart code works, i just started getting frustrated at every little complication the android API makes at doing android things in a java way
fuck that, i'm learning dart now -
I have an idea for Android desktop. I was wondering if it would be possible to build the open source Android and chrome os code into one entity and then have them both installed on your phone.
Basically when using phone the user would use Android, and when an HDMI connection is detected, it launches chrome os on the external display.
Is this possible? I know Android has an HDMI connection event hidden in their API. I'm just unsure if the kernels will play nicely together.5 -
Anyone got an issue on Android with YouTube video previews and media in general flickering to black randomly?
System:
OnePlus 5T
Android 9
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!android_code
Hey I am getting plb in tabbed activity application in android..
Let me know how to code separately for each and every tab within same activity?? -
First try on an Android app after spending a lot of time with Windows
Needless to say, I hate how android apps look sooo trying to recreate MDL2 with Android :3
Android peeeeooooopppppppplllle, critique it?
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Including critical build dependencies inside Android Studio.app instead of in a public repo... why?
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Anyone using a newish Android One phone right now who'd care to comment on the experience?
How are the updates? Stock Android work well?10 -
Good day sires. I come to call out Android OS. I think Android OS is bad; it limits the freedom. We must call out Android OS it is our duty as software enlightened because the regular people cannot do it; they do not understand.
Rise up Android OS hater army 😡😡😡
Android bad. We will be heard14 -
Any suggestion for an alternative android device emulator, to the Android Studio one?
I've got an AMD cpu, that make the AVD run very slow 😞7 -
Android OS is officially done in 2022 and belongs on a graveyard with all the other projects that started out good but got ruined later by corporate bullheads1
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Hey all,
Where does devrant for Android store downloaded images? And yes I allowed saving and storage access.
Android data folder is empty. Bug?
It did work before i switched to Android 8. My new phone is also android 8, and it also does not work.
Greetings17 -
FUCK ANDROID SETTINGS. I wanted to find a single setting to change my default write disk. A SINGLE SETTING. I used it a few days ago, but android is winging about storage bullshit, so I want to change my default write disk. I should just be able to search it up online, or use the default search but MOST RESULTS ONLINE DONT EVEN WORK BECAUSE ANDROID IS SO FUCKING INCONSISTENT I SWEAR IF I CANT FIND ONE MORE SETTING DUE TO THIS FUCKING SEARCH I AM QUITTING ANDROID BECAUSE FUCK THIS. tldr fuck android settings I'm going to go make myself throw up because of how stressing this is bye2
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I told them I can do everything from front end, back end, to iOS and mac app, just not Android. I don't like Android. Now they are assigning Android tasks to me, I am working like shit and very unhappy.
Am I not professional or is this ok?2 -
will ever firebase replace java in android dev? I'm a web dev wanted to hear about it from android guys4
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Guys I wanna do android dev. Don't wanna make it my mainstream but need it for some projects. So which is an easy way to develop mobile apps? I dont wanna do android studio. Maybe a JS framework.2
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No matter what brands nor expensive your Android Phone, it still sucks if it has no Pure Android OS in it
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Firebase:
I'm facing weird behavior. I have an app on Android 7 always received notifications evven if not used for a week.
On Android 9 if not used for three days it stops receiving anything.
Anyone knows what could be wrog?8 -
Speaking about notifications, would it be a deal breaker to go back to Android 10 after experiencing notifications from Android 11 🤔
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Hey everyone, what do you use for Android development, Android Studio or cry till you are over it?1
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For making android apps, we have Android Studio likewise what we have for iphones and mac? Can anyone help9
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Why does an app built using Appcelerator, which runs beautifully on iPhone, run TERRIBLY on Android? 😡😡Camera permission issues, trapping Android back button, grr!3
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Wrote little experience in Android Studio which i learned from youtube tutorial and didn't create any apps before, boss ask for assist in creating Android apps
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Android FragmentStatePagerAdapter has an overridable method "getPageTitle" this would be great if the adapter had app context or returned an @StringRes int! Don't half bake in stuff!
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