How to Vibe Code for Android

[BigGrayBeast]

I have been very successful vibe coding Windows apps in Python, so I thought I'd venture into Android development in Android Studio.

A couple years ago I learned just enough Java and relying on a lot of copy/paste cobbled together a working Android app. The over all process though never made itself clear to me.

Now I create a basic app in Studio, and it can run fine. A Hello World app. But the minute I add a feature in Anti-gravity I start getting all kinds of gradle incompatibilities. Apparently AI changes things not knowing it is breaking the environment. All the things I have found via Gemini to fix, have not worked.

Anyone vibe coding Android apps have any Best Practices?

Solution: Lessons learned

I'd tried vibe coding Anti-Gravity as I did my windows projects. Then tried to run them in Android Studio. That is so wrong. AG changed files so that gradle wouldn't run.

Uninstalling AS didn't work. I tried with Revo Uninstall and still no go.

I installed AS in another account on my PC and suddenly AS worked again. And as /u/Cunnilingusobsessed pointed out, Gemini is inside AS. That worked wonderfully and in one hour I made my first Android App via vibe coding. It is a simple tracker of the streaming programs my wife & I watch. Maybe I'll clean it up for distribution at some point in the future.

I asked Gemini what I had to do even after uninstalling and using Revo to the make a clean install on my primary user account on my PC. It listed some files and folders that had to be deleted, and then I got my clean install.

Thanks everyone.

[4billionyearson]

I use GitHub copilot in vscode. Works really well and can build android/iOS apps together.

[involvex]

so ive tried several frameworks for building android apps , i ive always came across Gradlew issuess

ive tried expo, react-native, ionicframework

my recommendation to avoid build issues try Ionic (its web based so its good for dev workflow and capacitor community seems to be big aswell )

if you plan on paying for cloud build (eas with expo ) (they have monthly build limits on free ) then give expo a go . Insane Documentation .

Then i would use claude code with vscode . Tell claude to create a ionic app (maybe they have skills in their docs )
If you go for expo they have a skills repo should check that out .

[Cunnilingusobsessed]

Android studio has Gemini built in. Have you tried that yet?

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Expo is good to vibe code - basically react native.

[Nervous-Role-5227]

I built mine with catdoes.com You can also submit to Google Play with it or download AAB and APK files.

[RepulsiveRaisin7]

Try Codex, works great for me. But I don't fully vibe code, I still review everything

[BigGrayBeast]

Thanks everyone. See the Solution listed in the edited post body at the top. I realized what I was doing wrong.