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by pjmlp 1244 days ago
My experience looking at the quality of Android tooling raises some questions about those skills.
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hulitu 1244 days ago
My experience is the same. Could be " good engineers" and "bad management" but this would not explain why the " good engineers" would work for "bad management".
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fidgewidge 1244 days ago
Isn't the Android tooling mostly Gradle and IntelliJ though, which Google don't make.
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ohgodplsno 1243 days ago
If only. At least I'd only have to master Gradle's batshit insane logic. But no, between the Android Gradle Plugin which is clearly the work of a tortured soul, various tools like aapt, the Android API changes (lol MediaStore, lol version & extension checks), some tools in Android Studio which have been terrible for a while, there's a lot of bad stuff coming from Google.

But then again none of this is as painful as using Xcode so I can't really complain.

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