what is the way to develop mobile apps (android would be a good start) on freebsd?

hern42

hern42

dear all,
i perused the forum and handbook in search of a thread about using *android studio* but failed to find something recent, do not hesitate to let me know if i missed it.
it seemed people used the linux compatibility layer but an often read sentence was "not impossible but a massive pain".

is there anyone with experience in developing application for mobile phone here? maybe the way is not to go native and do a trick like starting a local we-bserver on the phone and doing some web assembly or something?
bit of context: it's probably gonna be to help students code some little apps/games, my previous experience is that if you let them show to their friends and family their achievements it's nice for them and they get motivated, hard to do with a terminal running game of tic-tac-toe on a raspberry pi ;)

best,
yrs trly,
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Depending upon what happens in the next year you may want to abandon having ANYTHING to do with android. They recently announced plans to lock-down app installation similar to the way apple IOS does, all apps must be from a verified source. This means you have to give up your privacy and REGISTER with google for the privilege of designing signed apps that can be loaded on android devices. I've already decided that when they roll this out I'm going back to a flip phone and will never have use an android again. I mean the first thing I do with a new device is disable most of the google spyware apps and download FOSS equivalents from a 3rd party APK site...This is a move by google to prohibit exactly what I'm doing.
 
kent_dorfman766 said:
Depending upon what happens in the next year you may want to abandon having ANYTHING to do with android. They recently announced plans to lock-down app installation similar to the way apple IOS does, all apps must be from a verified source. This means you have to give up your privacy and REGISTER with google for the privilege of designing signed apps that can be loaded on android devices. I've already decided that when they roll this out I'm going back to a flip phone and will never have use an android again. I mean the first thing I do with a new device is disable most of the google spyware apps and download FOSS equivalents from a 3rd party APK site...This is a move by google to prohibit exactly what I'm doing.
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that is indeed an issue.
i heard about it and it worried me.
however, some people are less picky about that than we are and i may have to develop some apps anyhow (i also had to make bling bling excel sheets/shits sometimes, over my dead body...)
maybe the best way is to make a local webserver and do a python django or whatever web thingy. i'm still in the process of looking around.
 
While my host is FreeBSD I develop Android apps by running a Linux VM using Bhyve. I don't use Android Studio as it's too bloated and just run Emacs with various plugins. I just install the Android command line tools and Flutter.
 
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