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  1. 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."
        1. …in reply to @catehstn
          E.g. when you want to take a picture you have to allocate memory. What do these people thing that an Operating System does?!
          1. …in reply to @catehstn
            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).