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    The Android Native Development Kit

  • > The new architecture also doesn't make much difference. Stuff just works, though homebrew needs to be told it's not on Intel anymore (terraform breaks weirdly if you don't do this). There seem to be plenty of M1 versions for your generic coder stuff.

    I bought an MBP with M1 recently. The main reason was to run video conferencing software, which so far it has done well at. That it is a powerful machine yet small and lightweight was a plus for it as well - its easy portability.

    I bought it for some secondary reasons, but those have not panned out yet. In mid-February I tried to compile a program with the release version of Android Studio, the project had NDK (C language) components. Even with Rosetta it was not working ( https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/1299 ). Google said they had M1 support coming down in Android Studio canary version and other fixes coming out as well in the future. I'm not in a rush, but it compiles on my Ubuntu box and on Intel-based Macs, but not M1 out of the box yet (not without having to fiddle around to do it any how).

    For my Android projects that were fully Java/Kotlin based, the M1 did compile fast though.

    Also, Fidelity said they have an application called Active Trader Pro that works on Macs. It's not something I ever used, or that I would probably use regularly, but I decided to check it out. It would not work for me either, and support forums made mention of difficulties it has on M1.

    One thing I haven't tried yet is loading Unity 3d and futzing around with it, hopefully when I have the time to do that it will be working.

    Still happy with my purchase as it's working for my primary need, and more Android Studio support seems to be coming, and it is not a big rush to me. It's probably good that Apple is pulling software into a world where it supports ARM (kind of weird Android code primarily targets ARM devices, yet has trouble compiling on ARM devices). I had heard about how fast things compile on it, but it was even faster than I expected. So all in all I like it, and hopefully more software will be supported as time goes on.

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