Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

Re:Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent by wiseowise on Friday April 17, 2026 @02:58AM (#47803200)

Android Studio on its deathbed. Just release VSCode plugin and kill it for good, it has been a buggy, slow mess for the last 3 years or so.

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Re:Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent by barrkel on Friday April 17, 2026 @04:15AM (#47803631)

Do you still use IDEs?

I haven't used an IDE since December.

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Re:Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent by codebolt on Friday April 17, 2026 @04:17AM (#47803645)

Debugging and local testing is the main remaining use case of IDEs. Especially so for mobile apps where you need to manage one or more emulators.

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Re:Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent by wiseowise on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:30AM (#47804061)

Not on Android, where debugger works once in a blue moon.

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Re:Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent by netdevphoenix on Friday April 17, 2026 @06:09AM (#47804293)

If you think Android Studio has been a bug in the last 3 years, you haven't used it back in the days of Android Studio Beta. It has come a long way.

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Re:Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent by belimawr on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:17AM (#47805594)

Must be a web dev who adamantly uses VSCode for everything

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Re:Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent by Steltek on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:53AM (#47805978)

I can't be the only one with a severe aversion to language/platform specific IDEs. "Oh no, you can't write Python in Vim, you need to get Pycharm!" "iOS apps? Don't try anything except XCode."

IDEs are (were? :-/) a very personal choice. Maybe I'm an AI but I would have loved a CLI-centric workflow. It would have kept options open.

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Re:Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent by hbn on Friday April 17, 2026 @04:43PM (#47810370)

I haven't touched Android dev in the better part of a decade.

Is Android Studio notably worse than IntelliJ? Cause I use that every day for work and I love it.

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Re:Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent by izacus on Saturday April 18, 2026 @08:29AM (#47815398)

Android Studio is IntelliJ with tweaks.

Not sure what that dude is going on about, noone sane wants VSCode over that.

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Re:Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent by pjmlp on Saturday April 18, 2026 @12:27PM (#47817144)

It has been like that since they dropped Eclipse.

And those of us that used NDK, had to wait until JetBrains came up with Clion, for Google to finally offer an alternative.

Apple, mostly in-house, Google, mostly out sourced to JetBrains.

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