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I miss Android <4 when you could write tiny apps that would do things.
by spiritplumber 3y ago
I miss Android <4 when you could write tiny apps that would do things.
- kosmozaut 3y agoIs there anything that prevents you from doing that today? I mean the app in this post still seems to work. Apart from some parts of the system that have been pretty much locked down, I think one reason that apps are much larger today is that our expectations increased dramatically.
- spiritplumber 3y agoMy SO rewrote the robotsanywhere app to be compliant with android 5+ and the compliance stuff made it balloon from 250kb to 5mb. I was a bit humiliated.
- Synaesthesia 3y agoI find apps in Android are much smaller than iOS apps in terms of download size.
- themrredbeard 3y agoApp written c 25kb on API 26 https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid
- grishka 3y agoYou can still write tiny apps that do things if you ignore Google.