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Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

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Re: Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

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Post by whattheheckheck »

rtpg wrote: post #24
user2722 wrote: post #2

Agents will allow human programmers to get what they've been begging for decades now: proper requirements and flexible, logical, tooling.

this has been my sort of big tent alignment with AI people. If I'm getting good CLI tooling that _actually works_ (or fixes to existing ones that have been busted forever) then I'm pretty happy. Things that make systems more understandable to the LLMs ... usually make things more understandable for humans as well. Usually. The biggest issue I've found is that vibed up tooling tends to be pretty bad at having the righ…

Any textbooks or resources on getting better at naming things?

The Programmers Brain book was my go to

Re: Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

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Post by hemc4 »

Wow. Thanks for this update. It streamlined a lot of tasks.

Apart from this, next step will be to add suport for building android apps on the android phones itself. No desktop needed.Building on the laptop with agents and installing the build in the phone and testing doea not seem AI native. If everything can run on my android phone, development cycle will speed up.

Re: Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

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Post by jadar »

This is great. We also need a tool to expose source jars to agents so they don’t need to compress. There’s a lot of Compose overloads that Claude just guesses at. I built something internally but it needs polish and Claude really struggled with the deep Gradle integration.

Re: Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

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Post by stavros »

whattheheckheck wrote: post #41
rtpg wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this has been my sort of big tent alignment with AI people. If I'm getting good CLI tooling that _actually works_ (or fixes to existing ones that have been busted forever) then I'm pretty happy. Things that make systems more understandable to the LLMs ... usually make things more understandable for humans as well. Usually. The biggest issue I've found is that vibed up tooling tends to be pretty bad at having the righ…

Any textbooks or resources on getting better at naming things? The Programmers Brain book was my go to

The Design of Everyday Things.

Re: Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

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Post by stavros »

bitpush wrote: post #23
iririririr wrote: post #15

> Your agents perform best when they have a lightweight, programmatic interface to interact with the Android SDK and development environment. F you google. Me too. Why didn't we get a sane way to build android apps before you had to please chatbots?

Damned if you do. Damned if you dont.

Damned if you don't, damned if you do fifteen years later for an entirely different reason.

Re: Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

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Post by stavros »

stronglikedan wrote: post #16
Evidlo wrote: post #3

Now please let us install the apps just as easily

downloading an APK and opening it is already about as easy as it gets. the only thing easier would be for someone else to do it for you

"This APK cannot be scanned and its safety cannot be verified. Learn more/go back" and "learn more" has a link that looks like nothing but is actually a button to actually install the app.

I can think of some easier things, for example popping up a dialog, pressing "install" and having my all actually be installed after that.

Re: Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

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Post by anabis »

The install command shown for Windows is 404.

`curl -fsSL https://dl.google.com/android/cli/latest/windows_x86_64/inst... | bash`

The URL shown for individual OSs work, but the script errors for me.

`curl.exe -fsSL https://dl.google.com/android/cli/latest/windows_x86_64/inst... -o "%TEMP%\i.cmd" && "%TEMP%\i.cmd"`

I manually downloaded the exe, but it say socket error. vibe coding is going strong!

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