Re-working my course on Android Development. Next year will be the third year I've taught the course, and usually the third year is where I'm happy with the con

Re-working my course on Android Development. Next year will be the third year I've taught the course, and usually the third year is where I'm happy with the content. It's a fun course to teach, but I would never, ever want to work in the area professionally. The biggest problem is the instability of the tools. IntelliJ is already complex, then you pile on all the Android Studio stuff. Within Android Studio, you are working with a hugely complex framework (Jetpack Compose) that depends, directly or indirectly, on probably hundreds of libraries. Sometimes, things just break, for no apparent reason. On some students' computers, the whole wobbly tower never works quite right. It reminds me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/