So for background, I’m an IT Consultant, and mostly work in the development space, but one area I’ve never touched before has been mobile app development. So today, I spent the day getting a new GitHub repo sorted out, put together a pretty simple Actions workflow with SonarQube integration and basic test gates… on that note, got a new VPS up and running and deployed SonarQube there. Then finally just got my first Gradle project running on Android Studio, and after dealing with a corrupted keystore (fixed by just nuking the keystore, cleaning the project and rebuilding), I finally got technically my first Android app running on my S25 😄😄
I finally got technically my first Android app running on my S25
Wow, that’s really impressive.
Didn’t know the old bone was still capable of that…
But, honestly, good for you!
I recently did some stuff for myself, slightly tweaking opensource apps to my needs, but decided against getting more deeply involved, seeing on how Google is making stuff for independent devs increasingly more complicated (and maybe downright impossible in the near future).
1 day of set up to get to ‘hello world’.
Now you know why people hate mobile app development! Wait till you discover the torment of the app stores, lol
Man. Google play. What a pain in the ass. 15 testers? Do I have 15 friends? And do they all have androids?
Haha no
Lol, well to be fair, I spent probably only around 3-4hrs of effort. And a lot of that was figuring things out for the first time. App stores is going to be another matter entirely haha
