Android studio is proprietary and sends telemetry to google.
It’s also buggy and sometimes crashes with “out of memory” error ( I have 16 GB of RAM ).
Is there an open source alternative to it?
Maybe an opensource environment for android apps development?
Jetbrains?
I second this.
A while back I had my old toshiba portable out, running MS VC4.2, 16 Mb ram, 75mhz pentium, 800mb hdd. It compiled some quite large old apps (via its full IDE) suprisingly well.
I just dont see why the system is so painfully slow with 16gb ram, 1tb hdd etc, literally 1000 times the capacity! And yes, endless downloads.
Whats needed is the minimum command line tools for C/C++, with simple clear setup instructions for basic libs like SDL2, some simple working examples, and a small editor like geany.
The other problem is that the download process is within android studio, rather than apt get, or download zips. Its hard to download a “stable” set of zips and re-install if you made a mistake in setup, or just want to put a clean install on another disk.
There is this thread here…
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/open-source-android-development-tools/30599/100