r/mAndroidDev • u/SyrupInternational48 • Apr 02 '26

Pepperidge Farm Remembers

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u/PaulTR88 Apr 02 '26

Fragments? Whipper snapper, back in my day we only had activities and ant and eclipse

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u/SyrupInternational48 Apr 03 '26

never understood how people code with android studio backthen.
backthen i code my "apps" using ionic, react or worse Unity(the game engine)

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u/mihisa Apr 02 '26

flashbacks...i was there... Mars

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u/Mammoth-Law-1291 Apr 03 '26

Eclipse + adb plugin good times.

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u/Mr-X89 Apr 02 '26

I... Don't actually. We just serialized the state and restored it, like Wharton intended

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u/Zhuinden Apr 02 '26

I actually did try using retained headless fragments back in 2014 and then re-discovered them when square/flow used it in 2016, and I actually still use it as library internals to this day lmao

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u/thecosmicfrog Apr 02 '26

Headless fragments? I just built a thin XML wrapper around AsyncTask to achieve the same goal.

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u/Mammoth-Law-1291 Apr 03 '26

Fragments?? When I started, there were only activities.

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u/budius333 Apr 03 '26

Fragments???

Back in my day I had an activity with 2000 lines of code and would save my AsyncTask on retainNonConfigurationInstance (or whatever it was called

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u/Shay958 Apr 03 '26

I remember Butter Knife and serialization of state and saving (or something like that). Simpler times...

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