Thanks for reply comrade. I'm not really a Javascript person, but it's good to know there are alternatives to use for building apps quickly. The last time I used Javascript for anything was jQuery on a website in 2017 and even I think it was outdated in favour of all the fancy frameworks. I haven't the head for keeping up with it al.
I also got burned by multiplatform frameworks back during my undergrad during a group project when the self-elected team lead — a proper bourgie moneyed type who went to like Stow or something — forced us to use Titanium to build an android app when the rest of us wanted to write it in native Android Java. It was godawful, and then when I later came to developing apps I had a pleasant enough time writing in Java.
Ah that sucks to hear :-( I didn't know there was even a plugin ecosystem to Android Studio but of course there is.
I might just use Android studio to set up the project and then do my actual keyboard-bashing in Neovim later. All I really want is the boilerplate set up properly and my app will be a single activity with maybe 3 views, so once that's all generated I'll try switching.
Out of interest, what has been the failure points for you trying this in the past?