is it me or is android programming complicated as fuck?

i could not fucking get a fucking icon to appear on the ActivityBar and gave up. so much fucking xml to do a fucking hello world, fuck.

Putting icons on the GUI isn't real programming anyway.

>>2

i know that.

It's Java. What did you expect? The smallest app is still several thousand bytes:

http://blog.javia.org/3430-bytes-the-smallest-apk-ever/

4k demo in Linux(!) and Windows...
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=10562
...ported to Android becomes 34k!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=st.martin.yrot&hl=en

It's not just you. I've been working on an xposed framework module, what a pain in the ass. Plus using eclipse makes me want to punch someone. And the whole project is pretty pointless now that they're switching to ART.

>>1
I don't know now but I did two applications for my old company almost four years ago and it was really painful: it's not only Java (though I remember I needed the infamous NDK to do some real-time shit in C which was almost worse), but the entire enterprise developing platform (ie sdk+eclipse) was completely disgusting. I would prefer to starve to death before having to do some stupid app for Android again.

>>4
Shalom!

Manifest merger failed : uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 8 cannot be smaller than version L

thank god it's not just me, i was starting to feel really stupid. well i guess i will get used to the pain :( . fucking ENTERPRISE android bullshite.

>>4
Android is Java done the Sepples way, with pointless class hierarchies littered everywhere. It's actually worse than the standard Java APIs.

There are some kind-of half decent scripting apps you can use, hopefully one will eventually get the ability to compile

Android
not using NDK

>>12
Who said that? Besides I used the NDK to compile perl.

Just put a webview to cover the entire screen and write why you want in Javashit. The js code can call into the app itself when the page is stored locally.