Android is a spyware delivery vehicle for google and others, I want an open and free phone that works for me not against me.
Development on android is absolutely horrible, tonnes of xml and java just to get a simple hello world working, a huge bloated IDE that's practically required to do anything, glacially slow emulators to debug with instead of just running the app natively. Java and all the performance problems from that.
> Nobody is going to rewrite thousands of applications like Youtube, Telegram, Maps or Happy Farm for Debian.
Good, they aren't wanted, I don't want to have to rely on malware and proprietary messaging apps from the play store. Once you get rid of that you don't need the crazy permissions system, the users that need that permissions system don't understand it anyway.
> Is writing in Java less productive than in C/C++/GTK or whatever they use in Ubuntu?
Development on android is absolutely horrible, tonnes of xml and java just to get a simple hello world working, a huge bloated IDE that's practically required to do anything, glacially slow emulators to debug with instead of just running the app natively. Java and all the performance problems from that.
> Nobody is going to rewrite thousands of applications like Youtube, Telegram, Maps or Happy Farm for Debian.
Good, they aren't wanted, I don't want to have to rely on malware and proprietary messaging apps from the play store. Once you get rid of that you don't need the crazy permissions system, the users that need that permissions system don't understand it anyway.
> Is writing in Java less productive than in C/C++/GTK or whatever they use in Ubuntu?
Yes, at least when coupled with the horrible android ecosystem. Compare a hellow world app with c + gtk (https://riptutorial.com/gtk3/example/18820/-c---hello-world-...) to one in android (https://www.tutorialspoint.com/android/android_hello_world_e...). Having a sane and performant environment to build apps in is the most promising aspect of the Librem 5.