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Relatively certain the code I'm following in this Android dev tutorial won't even compile so y'know… that makes it extra fun.
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I kinda like Android dev from an intellectual perspective but some aspects of it just seem so inefficient.
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Like "here is this thing that almost everyone might want to do, yeah you do have to write that much code."
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E.g. when you want to take a picture you have to allocate memory. What do these people thing that an Operating System does?!
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Or sure, you can run code in the background. Like this! But if the phone gets rotated it will be killed, so there's that to consider.
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(I know there's another way to do this using a Service, this also has some downsides).