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Building Android Apps on Arch Linux Without Android Studio If you want to build an Android app, the official recommendation is to download Android Studio. However, Android Studio is a massive application. It consumes gigabytes of RAM, takes a long time to index files, and can make older hardware grind to a halt. If you are using Arch Linux, you likely appreciate a system that is lightweight, fast, and exactly what you make of it. You can apply this same philosophy to Android development. You do not need a heavy Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to build an app. All you need is the Android Software Development Kit (SDK), a text editor, and the command line. ...

A Minimalist Approach to Digital Detox I built FocusLock because I found myself mindlessly scrolling through apps like Instagram and WhatsApp, wasting hours without realizing it. Existing blockers were either too easy to bypass or too bloated with features I didn’t need. I decided to build my own solution with a specific goal: create high-friction access to distracting apps. To make it interesting, I developed the entire project on a minimal Arch Linux setup, without using the heavy Android Studio environment. ...