So for background, I’m an IT Consultant, and mostly work in the development space, but one area I’ve never touched before has been mobile app development. So today, I spent the day getting a new GitHub repo sorted out, put together a pretty simple Actions workflow with SonarQube integration and basic test gates… on that note, got a new VPS up and running and deployed SonarQube there. Then finally just got my first Gradle project running on Android Studio, and after dealing with a corrupted keystore (fixed by just nuking the keystore, cleaning the project and rebuilding), I finally got technically my first Android app running on my S25 😄😄
Hey man congrats! That’s fantastic!
I’m a QA guy and have 0 coding experience, 0 android studio experience and 0 github experience. I did something similar not to long ago… tho I 100% vibe coded everything.
I rolled some Claude ai to my endeavoros desktop. Told it what I wanted in an android app it gave me the packages for what I needed for Android studio and I rolled all of that onto my computer built and pushed it to git hub.
It’s been a learning experience android studio, GitHub and for me Google play.
I’ve got a couple versions of my basic app. A version I can send my dad, and a version on GitHub for the specific community it was generated for lol
It’s not anything special, just a database that lets you input names into two categories and then randomly lets you select a name from each category and approving the pairing if it’s acceptable.
It’s not fancy but I did it (vibe coded sure) but for me the need was there. I made it and I’ve learned a lot in the process.
So good job! I’m sure we’ve both walked down similar paths recently and its no small feat for a app novice