Looking for tips, tricks, and experiences of comrades who’ve developed Android apps using Vim, Neovim, or other text editors rather than Android Studio.

It’s been a while since I did any Android development but I want to develop an app for personal use. Between then and now I’ve been using Neovim for everything so I’m loathe to go back to Android Studio but it handles a lot of boiler plate for new projects.

Has anyone got any thoughts or tools to share? I’m very comfortable in the CLI so my dream setup would be using Neovim as a code editor and running build commands etc in a terminal nearby.

  • Red Magpie@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    2 months ago

    Thanks for reply comrade. I’m not really a Javascript person, but it’s good to know there are alternatives to use for building apps quickly. The last time I used Javascript for anything was jQuery on a website in 2017 and even I think it was outdated in favour of all the fancy frameworks. I haven’t the head for keeping up with it al.

    I also got burned by multiplatform frameworks back during my undergrad during a group project when the self-elected team lead — a proper bourgie moneyed type who went to like Stow or something — forced us to use Titanium to build an android app when the rest of us wanted to write it in native Android Java. It was godawful, and then when I later came to developing apps I had a pleasant enough time writing in Java.