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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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Create a wrapping binary instead mkdir -p ~/.local/bin printf '#!/usr/bin/env sh\nexec android-cli --no-metrics "$@"' > ~/.local/bin/android-cli echo 'PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshenv

I'm pretty sure this will just call itself in a loop. You need to use the absolute path to the wrapped binary to distinguish it from the wrapper.

Also it's not a binary :-)

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

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Apart from pedestrians.

It never made sense to me why cars and pedestrians need to share the same spaces. Why can't we have more efficient walking routes that are away from cars?

Yes, we can do that by banning leisure cars trips from all dense areas.

What's that you say? Drivers are a major and rich political force and they will block such decisions?

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

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

The tooling in 2026 is so easy you can do almost anything without AI very very quickly.

What tooling?

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

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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.

Also coding agents will happily compile android applications (of maximum complexity) via Github Actions where you can just pick them up with Obtainium. No PC needed

What is obtainium.

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

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Google has been neglecting Android for years with subpar tooling and ridiculous development practices.

If you think Android tooling is subpar wait until you try iOS.

Apple deliberately makes them shitty, big difference.

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

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Debugging and local testing is the main remaining use case of IDEs. Especially so for mobile apps where you need to manage one or more emulators.

Not on Android, where debugger works once in a blue moon.

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

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`android docs` is the superpower we need for everything. NPM / pnpm should have similar `npm docs` that would allow humans and agents to search for type-signatures and JSDocs.

It is so annoying that each agent has its own ideas where it tries to get the docs, usually by blindly grepping.

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

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> 3x faster Because the real bottleneck is really the velocity of development, right next to keeping the codebase small - right guys?

Code-generation velocity, and the absolute number of lines churned are 2 metrics AI tools can irrefutably benchmaxx, so the vendors highlight them.
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