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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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How does one create an app? (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have no background or knowledge on this. I would like to make an app for performance engine building that has various pages with various formulas, unit conversions, tool lists, etc. What program do I use to make an app? I've seen Surge, Bevy, and Godot but those seem to be for games.

Edit: ~~Thank you everyone for your helpful responses. Unfortunately I can only see the responses left on my post, not replys to top level responses. I think this is an instance problem and I'm trying to find out because I would love to see everyone's comments.~~ All is working now

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Android Studio is proprietary

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Imo that's fine. It's also still the best tool for learning since it's the most widely supported one, and contains the greatest amount of documentation for working with android development. It costs nothing to use, and doesn't lock you into any kind of ecosystem you can't later migrate from.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Does that mean there is a free alternative?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Time to develop one, perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Vscodium

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And vscode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's not Foss though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OP never asked for FOSS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

True, but this is F-droid. Not to mention there little reason to use vscode over vscodium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You're spot on. I do want to make my app open source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Vscodium is basically vscode but without the proprietary stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Command line tools plus fancy editor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can use IntelliJ Community to develop Android apps with an Android plugin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Android Studio is still free, while proprietary. And Intellij community is also proprietary, pretty much the same thing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

IntelliJ has source available here under Apache-2 license. AFAIK only Pro edition is proprietary.

Android Studio has no source but there is one for Android IntelliJ plugin here.

Maybe I'm missing something but to me these cases are pretty different.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Oh wow, i didn't know they opened those sources, that is nice.