Hi,
my Android dev experience consists of a single school project back in the day before android studio existed, it populated a few menus dynamically from text files and displayed text/images.
I am a developer, but I write business software in a field that’s usually 10 years or so behind the bleeding edge.
I’d consider myself a power user of android, flashing roms or kernels isn’t new to me, but development is.
Jerboa is great already, but I see a lot of things that could be improved and many of them seem rather easy.
How much time would it take to get to a point where I could implement simple stuff, like adding an entry to the context menu of comments that lets me view the raw text?
It’s worth it to push yourself into learning new things for whatever reasons
Jetpack Compose (the UI framework) is pretty easy to learn IMO. If you are an experience dev it probably takes no more than one week for simple stuff :)
I figured it out in a couple days, but I’m pretty experienced with frontend frameworks. Kotlin is nice to work with, and I’m still learning new stuff stuff it, but I was able to fix a bug just a couple days after making an effort.
So I highly recommend going through Google’s Jetpack Tutorial and Kotlin’s tutorial, and then find a beginner friendly bug on Jerboa (they’re tagged).
It’s a pretty approachable project. There are parts that I dislike, but after trying for a few days, it starts to make a lot more sense.
I would argue that it’s worth learning Android development just to know it, for Jerboa or otherwise
Never a bad idea to learn new things! I taught myself to write squirrel so I could mod titanfall 2, and am so glad I did. I’ve ended up making a lasting contribution that improved the game for everyone playing on the community servers.
