Hi all, much of what I have read recommends Android Studio to create Android apps, but I’m a bit wary since it’s developed by Google. Are there any other good alternatives that are ideally open-source?

I am currently running Fedora 43 KDE, and I use VSCodium as my main code editor, mostly Python at the moment. Are there any plugins I could use to enable Kotlin support/specific Android dev stuff in VSCodium?

  • entwine@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    Nit picking: why use VSCodium? It’s better to use Eclipse Theia instead, which is built from scratch and runs its own extension repository.

    …and for the old timers: NO! Eclipse Theia is NOT the Eclipse you’re thinking of

    • sbird@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      After a quick search, Eclipse “Theia” has a whole load of AI marketing and is the alternative to “GitHub CoPilot, Cursor, etc”. No thanks.

      • entwine@programming.dev
        3·
        4 days ago

        That’s just AI marketing bandwagon crap, probably fishing for funding. The editor has been around for a few years, and it had nothing to do with AI until very recently.

    • sbird@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      It’s what I’m used to and it’s got a good selection of extensions that are useful to me.

      • entwine@programming.dev
        3·
        4 days ago

        VS Codium uses open vsx, which is the extension registry built and run by the Eclipse team. Whatever extensions you’re using will also work on Theia.