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by aristofun 911 days ago
Android was a terribly designed, even more terribly documented piece of bugs to begin with. What do you expect)

It feels like google bought whoever agreed the first just to have a mobile platform asap in portfolio, they didn’t bother about the quality or user or, god fobid, dev experience.

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It was not that bad at all, one of the core file is 10K LOC, rock SOLID! Compose is fixing it for the baseline, loving Google's premature architecture where you need to invent the same wheel for production again and again at every other company. There is HILT but not enough, there is navigation but not enough, etc. In general, the things they built are suitable for semi-complete demo apps. Please point me to a simple CRUD app that is fully complete with error handling popups and unit tests, that can scale to build complicated real-life apps!

https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/main/+/...