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.

  • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    Oops, sry missed this one. jdtls , the java language server that works with vim / neovim / helix, and the kotlin-language-server don’t work with android libraries.

    • Red Magpie@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      29 days ago

      No worries re long replies. That’s really interesting. I’ve never used any LSP features before (I am definitely out of touch though) so perhaps this wouldn’t be such a blocker.