All my phones since have also been Android: Galaxy S2, Nexus 4, Moto X and my shiny new Pixel.īut, I also write iOS and tvOS apps and despite my abstract disapproval of Apple’s hegemonic attitude toward software, whenever I launch its IDE XCode, I breathe a little easier. I’ve been writing Android apps, both professionally and for fun, since 2009, when I first bought an HTC Magic. All my own smartphones have been Androids. Let me hasten to stress that I’m not an OS partisan, or, to the extent that I am, I’m inclined toward Google. About twice a year, I get involved in a project that requires me to do some Android development so, about twice a year, I re-launch Google’s so-called integrated development environment, Android Studio, with fingers crossed… and twice a year I find myself wincing with bitter disappointment, as I rediscover that it still has all the elegant, intuitive simplicity of a Rube Goldberg machine.
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