The PWA frameworks are pretty cool. Essentially just system level API hooks which then integrate into a existing React - NextJs - whatever projects. Granted it isn’t touching bare metal like you said but it is a nice level of a abstraction and beats dealing with android studio 🤢

Edit: I hear Expo is neat but I haven’t used it yet.

I mean plenty of reasons to be depressed, we have destroyed our planet, we are in the middle of the biggest mass extinction in 140 million years, and we can’t afford anything anymore. But yeah it’s a mindset or something.

And my axe

I have Llama 2 running on localhost, you need a fairly powerful GPU but it can totally be done.