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I've been developing Android since 2012. It was worse then. Still sucks now but isn't as bad. Esoteric errors are still the norm. With 10 years of experience you only have to swear a whole day when updating a library, instead of spending a week.
GPT does poorly with beginners - it's definitely something humans have advantage with AI and I expect the gap to get bigger.
I do not touch legacy projects anymore because they're always horribly broken, half the libraries no longer exist. Many of them are easier to rewrite than fix. You get weird bugs where A needs to be 1.71.0 but B needs A at 1.69.0 or 2+. Upgrading A to 2.0.1 will fix A and B but break CDEFG. Upgrading everything to max breaks switch-case, turns some of your brackets to lambdas, requires you to change your UI from XML to Kotlin, etc, etc.
If you want something to hack stuff with, I made this: https://github.com/smuzani/android-minimalist-template
Originally it was designed for AI with smaller context windows. But it works as a simplified version of our production codebase. The principle behind this is that you should have good peripheral vision and that the shape of the code resembles what it's trying to build.
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InfluxDB
Purpose built for real-time analytics at any scale. InfluxDB Platform is powered by columnar analytics, optimized for cost-efficient storage, and built with open data standards.
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Getting native libraries to work well on Android is a beast. I happened to have done exactly what you're describing though, specifically rendering libusb through an Android phone. My code is at https://github.com/kevmo314/kineticstreamer and you might be particularly interested in the CMake build at https://github.com/kevmo314/kineticstreamer/blob/main/app/sr...
Happy to answer any questions or help you out if you decide to keep going down this road, shoot me an email at [email protected]. Ultimately an Android phone is still just a Linux computer but jumping through the hoops is definitely hard.
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"Toybox's main goal is to make Android self-hosting by improving Android's command line utilities so it can build an installable Android Open Source Project image entirely from source under a stock Android system. After a talk at the 2013 Embedded Linux Conference explaining this plan, Google merged toybox into AOSP and began shipping toybox in Android Marshmallow in 2015." --Rob Landley
http://landley.net/toybox/
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See eg. accessing file systems.
[0] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/packages/flut...
[1] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/packages/flut...
[2] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/packages/flut...
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containers/podman > [Feature]: Android support:
> There are docker and containerd in termux-packages. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/root-p...
But Android 13+ supports rootless pKVM VMs, which podman-machine should be able to run containers in; but only APK-installed binaries are blessed with the necessary extended filesystem attributes to exec on Android 4.4+ with SELinux in enforcing mode.
- Android pKVM: https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization/architec... :
> qemu + pKVM + podman-machine: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/17717 :
> The protected kernel-based virtual machine (pKVM) is built upon the Linux KVM hypervisor, which has been extended with the ability to restrict access to the payloads running in guest virtual machines marked ‘protected’ at the time of creation.
> KVM/arm64 supports different execution modes depending on the availability of certain CPU features, namely, the Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE) (ARMv8.1 and later).
- "Android 13 virtualization lets [Pixel >= 6] run Windows 11, Linux distributions" (2022)
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containers/podman > [Feature]: Android support:
> There are docker and containerd in termux-packages. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/root-p...
But Android 13+ supports rootless pKVM VMs, which podman-machine should be able to run containers in; but only APK-installed binaries are blessed with the necessary extended filesystem attributes to exec on Android 4.4+ with SELinux in enforcing mode.
- Android pKVM: https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization/architec... :
> qemu + pKVM + podman-machine: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/17717 :
> The protected kernel-based virtual machine (pKVM) is built upon the Linux KVM hypervisor, which has been extended with the ability to restrict access to the payloads running in guest virtual machines marked ‘protected’ at the time of creation.
> KVM/arm64 supports different execution modes depending on the availability of certain CPU features, namely, the Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE) (ARMv8.1 and later).
- "Android 13 virtualization lets [Pixel >= 6] run Windows 11, Linux distributions" (2022)
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docker-in-termux
This repository contains instructions on how to install Docker in Termux, without root.
Looks like it's almost possible to run podman-machine on Android; and it's already possible to manually create your qcow for the qemu on Android and then run containers in that VM: https://github.com/cyberkernelofficial/docker-in-termux
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