But like I said, good read thanks for sharing the article! 😊

That’s what I thought 👍
Don’t take it the wrong way, it was a good read, but I think that sentence was a bit misleading. To the best of my knowledge, saving the application instance in a static field doesn’t have any practical issue like the ones you mention.

Why would saving the application instance in a static reference lead to leaks, bugs and crashes?
You mention it but it doesn’t come with the reasons for it.

At the same time, we’re talking about Android Studio, so maybe it’s a bit of an exception, I don’t think a lot of people will use another IDE to build an Android app 😅

I guess people are choosing IDEs nowadays based on whether they have certain AI features or not and how they work, so making sure people know and try yours make sense IMO.
Personally, I’d also rather they had no preferencial treatment, but just saying I can understand.

In my experience, if we really now what we are doing, then only on very narrow tasks it can be a good jumpstart.
But last months I’ve had to dig on matters I knew much less about (other platforms, other programming languages) and oh boy was it a lifesaver.
Never had weird output like that 🤔

Deep immutability, including for lists and all is a great feature, I would gladly pay the price of some new keywords for.
That said, I think that some of the ideas seem to go too far, I agree.
I’m sure those will get polished before it gets released 🙂

Got it. So it could potentially work well like RN if there was significant effort to make draw everything with wrapped UIKit views including layouts I’m guessing.
Still would be interesting to see that happening at some point 😜
Truly native feel on each platform 👌

This is basically what React Native does with every single component AFAIK.
Seems to be mostly working out for them.
Should work even better with KMP since there’s no JS bridge.
Just curious @chrisbanes.me why are you not a fan? Is it hard to come up with a good abstraction for multiplatform?

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But nice to see TCGs in general receiving some love. Nowadays I feel like new generation are not used to physical table top games, which are much slower than things like smartphone games etc.

Magic The Gathering is the first and ultimate TCG.
After years without playing I am now playing it once again and having a blast.
It has been a great outlet for my competitive itch 😜