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I am talking strictly about Android Studio and not the end results i.e. the apps. Giant? It's smaller than Xcode you know :) Bloated? Yes, so bloated! As an A
by balladeer 8y ago
I am talking strictly about Android Studio and not the end results i.e. the apps.
Giant? It's smaller than Xcode you know :)
Bloated? Yes, so bloated! As an Android developer this is my biggest complaint from the ecosystem after the fragmentation though Google is trying to fix that with Treble but they are just not enough for the Studio. It was amazingly frustrating and pathetic to work with it couple of years back and it still is.
My entire team is stuck on old Android Studio versions. I was the only one trying to live on the edge (and by that I mean stable channel) but for past few months I have just stopped upgrading Studio. It never fails to break the entire damn setup upon any upgrade. Like any release!
- pjmlp 8y agoThe typical Android development update cycle. - Stable releases of Android Studio are usually followed by complaints of breaking left and right even though they take mounths to get out - Stable releases of Android Support Library usually always have a couple of regressions - Documentation and release notes always gets made available a couple of hours later - Kotlin plugin usually breaks at every release - NDK gets the attention level of a 20% project
- balladeer 8y agoI had to copy the old ndk folder from a colleague's SDK and use it on mine after the update broke everything few weeks ago. I am not touching that thing again. Actually I am preparing myself to leave Android and get into backend dev, will keep in touch with Android dev as a hobby and maybe just to update my little used apps on PlayStore.