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by victornomad
3564 days ago
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after 6 years writing Android code I still struggle, specially with anything UI related.
I do as well web and Qt which I find vastly superior in terms of user interface creation.
If you stick to "material templates" you are ok, but as soon as you want to do things a bit differently is a pain in the ass... Theming is just horrible, and having xml files and images scattered everywhere using flat herachies is a bit annoying. And the audio subsystem is still really bad, lots of lag which prevents android having any serious sound / music app... if you dig the forums you will find lots of really upset people complaining and willing to help improve the sound subsystem and the Android team just keep ignoring...
Just to give you an example, my raspberry pi gives me 3ms of sound latency while my current flagship Android phone with Android 6.0 gives me 100ms, totally unaceptable for music related apps :( In terms of Android Studio I use it, but I find the interface really bloated which interferes with my desktop zen. I tweaked but still dont like it, somehow i miss my tuned Eclipse of some years ago.
Biggest thing since the transition to Android Studio is Gradle which I find it really good. I just wish Android was a truly open ecosystem where we developers have more voice than asking for help in stackoverflow and using a limited set of tools. Web development might be chaotic, sometimes feeling overcomplicated but Im truly amazed and thankful by the quality, quantity and variety of tools that the comunity produces. It just feel fresh and you can do it the way you want, from a simple html and css in a single file with a notepad to the most advanced framework with linters everywhere. |
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