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Re:Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow? by pjmlp on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:13AM (#25360150)
Coding for Android has taught me that is definitely not the case.

They managed to make a mess worse than JEE, the native layer took 10 years to finally use Android Modules, they keep fixing the header files, still don't have proper C++ bindings and force everyone to write JNI boilerplate by hand.

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Re:Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow? by tehlike on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:11PM (#25364029)
Android is really the worst platform for developers. Context? Let's make a god object, and also create application context and activity context, and screw liskov substitution principle. Also create a library to fix all our bugs in all versions of the platform, but also have a shit ton of bugs.

Microsoft did nail windows phone apis, 10 freaking years ago, too bad it didn't survive.

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Re:Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow? by pjmlp on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:40PM (#25367165)
Yeah, keep using my Lumia and playing with UWP.
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Re:Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow? by LockAndLol on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:30AM (#25360379)
The Android base wasn't written by Google. Google bought the company that made Android 2 years after it was written. That's a lot of time to create a base system and a lot of time to create cruft.

By now, it's too late to rewrite the whole thing from scratch, hence a new OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia

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Re:Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow? by pjmlp on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:51PM (#25363670)
That is no excuse. They had 10 years to fix it, and many issues steem from Google's HR to promote doing shinny toys instead of fixing broken stuff.
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