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by pjmlp 2235 days ago
In that regard the only thing I appreciate is their approach to securing native code.

As for everything else, kind of agree.

10 years and still a broken NDK experience, Java stuck on a pseudo Java 8 subset, every IO the best practices get rebooted, Vulkan requires cloning github repos, already went through 3 animation frameworks, JetPack Composer still has no idea how to match existing GUI tooling, ....
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lern_too_spel 2235 days ago
The developer experience is a horror show, and the people who control it have been making head-scratching decisions for years (you forgot to mention releasing libraries via SDK manager and git repos long after switching the recommended build system to Gradle and encouraging people to use Maven repos for dependencies), but that doesn't mean the OS architecture isn't sensible. Especially for current app-consuming use cases, the security model makes far more sense than MacOS's security model.
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pjmlp 2235 days ago
Yeah, I didn't want to list everything.
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ladyanita22 2235 days ago
And don't even mention drivers. Lack of stable ABI is why Android gets 2 years of updates vs. how many in Apple and Windows?
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pjmlp 2235 days ago
Project Treble and Modular System Components are that stable ABI, but it doesn't help if Google doesn't put on the Play Store license agreements that OEMs are obliged to push updates.

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture

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