To be fair, had the ant based build system been written by someone that actually understood ant properly then it wouldn't have been such a mess. It was also ed

To be fair, had the ant based build system been written by someone that actually understood ant properly then it wouldn't have been such a mess. It was also educational just how big a performance difference at code or xml editing existed between ADT and the same Eclipse installation on a vanilla Java project: the latter is like using a machine a decade newer. The tools people have always had a casual disregard for NDK users too, who make a disproportionately large amount of the Play Store revenue. The whole thing has never seemed like it was dog fooded at all, just developed for amusement.