Re:Why is Android Development so difficult/complex? (compare...
by jaybeavers on Thursday June 20, 2024 @06:29PM
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Strongly disagree. As a dev who’s been in the business since the days of the first gui apps and OSes, UI can be very straightforward, but we have designed modern systems such that they are immensely complex.
Styles and inheritance and asynchronicity have turned what could be a simple approach into an inscrutable problem.
Re:Why is Android Development so difficult/complex? (compare...
by aristofun on Thursday June 20, 2024 @08:43PM
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Aren’t you one of developers of android?
That would explain a lot :)
Very dangerous wishful thinking.
Ui can only be as straightforward as a user wants it to be - if all user wants is pressing couple buttons to open couple windows - then yes, it is straightforward.
Asynchronicity is not a problem it is one of the many solutions to help alleviate the problem.
1. UI is inherently a very complex problem, because of the state. Most of the so called web apps are thin clients with most of the state machine delegated and spread over backend services.
2. Android platform was shitty designed to begin with. Terrible architecture, ugly UX, frustrating docs etc.