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Update on youRant (the android app):
As I said multiple times in the past: I. HATE. Android so much xD
I spent yesterday 5 hours to write 25 lines of code(of securely storing encrypted session tokens for the login) because nothing in this platform is straightforward, and everything is done in the most roundabout and unexpected way ever.
And today an unexpected event happened so I couldn't work on it, so with regret, I have to say I have nothing new to show, as of now you can only see the main rant feed, and click on the rant to see the rant+comments page (No option for sign in or posting rants/comments or upvote/downvote yet), if that's usefull to anyone, mention me and I'll drop an apk tomorrow/day after tomorrow.

On the good news, since current devRant's API exposes no more than like ~40 recent rants (I swear you used to be able to scroll "infinitely" back in the past, so this must be a new bug or some shit) that means the rant feed in my app is suddenly effectively done(for the MVP, after the MVP there will be a more efficient feed scroller) since it means it can load in a single request all the rants that the API will give you anyways, and there's no need to implement scrolling or shit like that. So allowing to post and vote is "basically all" that needs to be added for the MVP to be done and published.
("Basically all" in quotes becaue I know well enough to not trust Android and expect another 5 roadblocks in the things that should be extremely easy to implement in any other UI toolkit/platform, I am fully expecting to spend a 7 hour session trying to figure some shit that is as simple as, for example, trying to set text to be bold or some shit)

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  • 2
    Are you using Jetpack Compose?
    I haven’t tried it yet but I hear it‘s a similar boost in productivity as SwiftUI was for iOS.
    For the "normal" android UI framework, I agree, it’s a major PITA to work with.
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    Seems to be just stable normal development :p sometimes it's just 25 lines. The amount of rants within reach is displayed here at total rants: https://static.molodetz.nl/dr.stats... . It's hundred or something, that's the match you can paginate. I think it's two weeks what site displays and once it was just more. Love to sign myself up as beta tester.
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