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Developer ports celestial navigation calculator to Android despite IDE challenges

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The author is exploring porting a celestial navigation calculator, developed by Henning Umland, to an Android device. Despite finding Android Studio to be a slow and clunky IDE, they successfully built and installed a "hello world" application, noting that modern Android devices can run the debug bridge over Bluetooth. The process involved adding Kotlin to improve the development experience and overcoming some hurdles related to installing "foreign" apps and Microsoft Defender warnings. AI

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Developer ports celestial navigation calculator to Android despite IDE challenges

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    # computers # AI # Android OK - I have got to port some of my stuff to my disposable ANDROID. The most excellent Henning Umland Sun sight reduction calculator i

    # computers # AI # Android OK - I have got to port some of my stuff to my disposable ANDROID. The most excellent Henning Umland Sun sight reduction calculator is a good target. Celestial Navigation is getting more popular with the advent of GPS denial. Sadly Android Studio for Wi…

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