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   Bill Phillips (billjings@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 12:02:04 JST Bill Phillips

   Today's Android drama:

   * Someone posts an extremely spicy implementation of a basic app on r/androiddev that essentially says, "All recommended best practices for Android dev are trash, just use Java and ditch all of Google's compat APIs": https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1c5vjhi/i_see_your_enterprisegrade_jetpack_compose_11mb/
   * Everyone laughs at this person for being a crank
   * Turns out: They are the author of mastodon-android! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android
   * Aaaaaand this extremely dubious fork of AndroidX: https://github.com/grishka/LiteX

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     Saket Narayan (saket@androiddev.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 12:02:01 JST Saket Narayan

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @billjings I wonder what @Gargron thinks about this

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     Bill Phillips (billjings@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 12:02:04 JST Bill Phillips

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     It would be nice if Mastodon's Android client weren't written and maintained by a crank who is unable to collaborate effectively or distinguish between good and bad dependencies. (Same problem, honestly)