Rapid development for Android, but not in Java, technology?

Question

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Good afternoon,

The question is philosophical and I have no definite answer, but nevertheless.
I want to make a simple application - a player for online radio (a project for a narrow circle of people, for local broadcasting).
There are a dozen URLs from the icecast server ( http://domain.tld:xxxx/share ) as input. Broadcasts in the form of mp3/ogg/aac

I am almost not familiar with Java, and the more I try to get acquainted, the more negative - the IDE is barely moving, for a primitive application you need to write pages of unreadable code, resources, xmls, it is not clear how it will swallow ogg/aac, well, in the circle of acquaintances does not have someone who can be asked banal questions - some kind of horror)) Thus, reality has been swept aside, at least for now.

I tried to throw on phonegap + jquery. Everything is fine on the computer, on the phone with incomprehensible brakes and somehow everything is tight. Whether I'm doing something wrong, or the technology itself is like that.

There is also something exotic like lazarus + android ( wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Android_tutorial ) but I'm even afraid ))

Maybe there is something simple, like phonegap, but working as native in Java ))

Answer 1

Maybe there is something simple, like phonegap, but working as native in Java ))

no son, this is fantastic ©
in my opinion, unreadable code is not a java problem at all, but resources in xml - in the web, too, the logic is separate, presented separately
yes, you can’t argue on old hardware to write under android is sad, for normal operation you need ssd and at least 4-6 memory
alternatives to java are essentially not, yes there is koltlin but the very essence of its use does not change, you can also look towards React Native but I wouldn't expect miracles

Answer 2

There is a course on Udacity - everyone clearly tells how to file a similar, in essence, application.
2-3 days of patience and make an application

Answer 3

If you write purely for internal needs, then why is it native at all? Raised a web server in LAN, it has a page with a player. On the phone, a shortcut to this page from the desktop or applications. No extra gestures are needed and will work quickly on android and ios.
Another option is to make a playlist and feed it to the player on the mobile.

Answer 4

You can write in C# in Xamarin