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by ohgodplsno 1887 days ago
Have you considered Jetpack Compose ? (https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose) Despite it being a Google project, it also has backing from Jetbrains (https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose/). Having access to the full JVM environment of libraries is an infinitely better state than Dart, and Kotlin is also a much more pleasant language. Testing cycle is sliiightly slower, but Compose previews make it easy.
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I've been playing with compose and it looks really good. Note that it's still on beta(api should be considered stable) with a release this year. Previews are kinda wonky for now. Sometimes it wouldn't refresh. How hard is it to implement hot reload?

And like I mentioned before, with my low-end laptop its hard to run full Android Studio. Tho Dart's not that pleasant compared to Kotlin, the tooling outside a single IDE was enticing for me.

I wouldn't be using such experimental technologies for anything else than toy projects.