There really isn't much of a barrier to entry and it works fine without the IDE. They encourage people to use the IDE because it has a lower barrier to entry than using the CLI tools, which work fine alone.
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It's the difference between host utils (need to be built for your host OS, arch, library ecosystem, ...) and target libs (independent of your development host, can just be binaries distributed by vendor).
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A basic project with an activity saying hello world is 20 lines of configuration and 5 lines of code. Don't need to install an IDE and libraries are separate from tools. Was trying to help but not seeing the point when you just want to be hostile and spread uninformed FUD.
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It's not FUD. There's no Alpine package for Android SDK so I either need to find the SDK source or install packages on a Debian VM/VPS.
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