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?
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.