Hi,

my Android dev experience consists of a single school project back in the day before android studio existed, it populated a few menus dynamically from text files and displayed text/images.

I am a developer, but I write business software in a field that’s usually 10 years or so behind the bleeding edge.

I’d consider myself a power user of android, flashing roms or kernels isn’t new to me, but development is.

Jerboa is great already, but I see a lot of things that could be improved and many of them seem rather easy.

How much time would it take to get to a point where I could implement simple stuff, like adding an entry to the context menu of comments that lets me view the raw text?

  • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I would argue that it’s worth learning Android development just to know it, for Jerboa or otherwise

  • nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Jetpack Compose (the UI framework) is pretty easy to learn IMO. If you are an experience dev it probably takes no more than one week for simple stuff :)

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I figured it out in a couple days, but I’m pretty experienced with frontend frameworks. Kotlin is nice to work with, and I’m still learning new stuff stuff it, but I was able to fix a bug just a couple days after making an effort.

      So I highly recommend going through Google’s Jetpack Tutorial and Kotlin’s tutorial, and then find a beginner friendly bug on Jerboa (they’re tagged).

      It’s a pretty approachable project. There are parts that I dislike, but after trying for a few days, it starts to make a lot more sense.