I’m a beginner and want to build mobile apps. I’m confused between learning native Android with Kotlin first, or going straight to a cross-platform framework like Flutter or React Native. With so many cross-platform options now, is Kotlin still worth the time for a beginner? Or would you skip it and start with cross-platform? If you started again today which path would you pick and why? Real experiences would help a lot.

I read a lot of long articles from lots of apps on my phone, and I'm tired of tapping the screen every minute to stop it from timing out. Manually changing the screen timeout every time is just as annoying, so I'm looking for something that will enable you chose apps where it will keep your screen awake so you could read long content.

I know there are some apps there but one I've found relies on your front camera to detect that you are still looking at the screen to keep the screen awake and most times I have the "sensors" toggle off so my camera is non functional.

macrodroid had a macro but Its free trial period expires and u back to square one.

I've been using StayFree for a while now as an alternative to QualityTime after the latter stopped working properly on my new phone. And I really enjoy the app, even though I preferred to see my screen usage to show like QT's continuous timeline instead of SF's confusing graphs. But what's really bothering me about StayFree it's that it's eating up my battery like crazy! Apparently it used up 33% of my battery since I last fully charged it, even after I disabled the app from running in the background!

Any apps to track my screentime like QualityTime? Preferably one that has a similar timeline and doesn't drain my battery.

I checked the previous post, and im unfortunately not satisfied about the stuff thats recommended many times! Tasker eg

Please recommend new, unknown paid apps.

I dont need music players or programming apps

For context, i installed EX file manager and realised it was malware before opening it, narrowly avoiding it.

I then installed amaze file manager through f-droid but saw a forum post claiming it was outdated on f-droid or something so now im indecisive on which one is safe or not.

Does anyone know of a good file manager app that has FTP features?

Is there a way to launch Google maps that takes directly to the search window with the keyboard expanded?

I tried doing it with activities, but none of them worked as intended.

What's the best app for counting calories and diet with the best free plan features

Is there a simple way to livestream (if that is the correct word) from your cell phone? I need to email two people in other states a simple link to see me carrying my phone around and talking. What is the easiest way to do this? Free would be great

Thought I'd share the good news for AUTOMATAG fans that the app has officially been fixed and works on android now