I am not a real programmer but...

[Jackal46]

According to the programmers of the world if you can't write code on a back a napkin with blood I are not a programmer. Well I write software and abuse AI to do it.

That aside I have a few old Android phones all of them Android 9 or earlier. I am running into a lot of errors and figured I can avoid it all because android 13 and up uses a lot of "new" permissions in the Gradle that the older phones can't cope and using older permissions means I am running into a back and forth with compatibility problems. It is screwing me around and I am tired of Android Studio shitting itself.

Not great.

So any suggestions on a good phone for R1.5k or maybe R2k because I don't feel the need to spend money on something that will essentially live on a cable. I know VM exist and it works but I do a lot of home automation for people and many times VM is just useless especially if I use Bluetooth to control lights and stuff like that.

So any suggestions? I don't want to go second hand at the local corner phone shop because they die in weeks and I don't have the temperament to go fight them anymore.

Also if you have any good Tutorials on UI animations like the Capitec animation when it prints a slip that looks really cool who ever did it. I would like to learn that because it looks cool as hell and I have a few playful ideas for home automation that will add to the user experience.

 

[ronz91]

According to the programmers of the world if you can't write code on a back a napkin with blood I are not a programmer. Well I write software and abuse AI to do it.

That aside I have a few old Android phones all of them Android 9 or earlier. I am running into a lot of errors and figured I can avoid it all because android 13 and up uses a lot of "new" permissions in the Gradle that the older phones can't cope and using older permissions means I am running into a back and forth with compatibility problems. It is screwing me around and I am tired of Android Studio shitting itself.

Not great.

So any suggestions on a good phone for R1.5k or maybe R2k because I don't feel the need to spend money on something that will essentially live on a cable. I know VM exist and it works but I do a lot of home automation for people and many times VM is just useless especially if I use Bluetooth to control lights and stuff like that.

So any suggestions? I don't want to go second hand at the local corner phone shop because they die in weeks and I don't have the temperament to go fight them anymore.

Also if you have any good Tutorials on UI animations like the Capitec animation when it prints a slip that looks really cool who ever did it. I would like to learn that because it looks cool as hell and I have a few playful ideas for home automation that will add to the user experience.

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[Gravedigger]

According to the programmers of the world if you can't write code on a back a napkin with blood I are not a programmer. Well I write software and abuse AI to do it.

That aside I have a few old Android phones all of them Android 9 or earlier. I am running into a lot of errors and figured I can avoid it all because android 13 and up uses a lot of "new" permissions in the Gradle that the older phones can't cope and using older permissions means I am running into a back and forth with compatibility problems. It is screwing me around and I am tired of Android Studio shitting itself.

Not great.

So any suggestions on a good phone for R1.5k or maybe R2k because I don't feel the need to spend money on something that will essentially live on a cable. I know VM exist and it works but I do a lot of home automation for people and many times VM is just useless especially if I use Bluetooth to control lights and stuff like that.

So any suggestions? I don't want to go second hand at the local corner phone shop because they die in weeks and I don't have the temperament to go fight them anymore.

Also if you have any good Tutorials on UI animations like the Capitec animation when it prints a slip that looks really cool who ever did it. I would like to learn that because it looks cool as hell and I have a few playful ideas for home automation that will add to the user experience.

Welcome to the world of Android app development...

Ja, I've also had my fair share of writing Android apps, permissions was one thing, but man, the SDK version differences is what broke the camel's back.
In Android 13, it has been deprecated/removed, but it works in Android 10... Quite difficult to write an app for a wide range of audiences and devices with different software versions.

 

[semaphore]

I inherited a **** mobile app this was my response: