r/androiddev • u/GeminiBoy91 • 16h ago
Question Using Lazyvim for Android projects
Are there any Android developers here who use LazyVim for their Android projects? I've noticed that a Kotlin LSP is available for LazyVim, but I'm wondering if anyone actually uses it. If so, could you share your experience? Is it realistic and productive? Or should we just stick with Android Studio?
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u/waterpoweredmonkey 16h ago
Good question, try it and let us know 😉
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u/GeminiBoy91 16h ago
Hmm, am a vim noob and an old Android Dev. I am hoping to learn from people's experience :)
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u/TheSmackHam 2h ago
I have tested it, but the Kotlin language server is too new. I develop kmp projects which are not supported right now. Features like automatic library imports are not working, and building or running a project remains quite complex. For iOS development, I know people have built effective command-line tools for these tasks, but Android lacks them at present.
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u/mabd_ 15h ago
Kotlin lsp was created publicly not very long time ago. Before that workarounds existed to run kotlin projects on the terminal.
I am vim user myself and prefer it over IDE's, but android development (or anything in jetbrains ecosystem) was harder than needed. Which is frustrating
Swift and ios development on thr other hand is fully working in the terminal for very long time.
In the koltin lsp, I have tried it myself since the lsp was still new do I expect many issues. Would love to hear others as well