Stylo for Android: From Idea to Release

When I sat down to write the first line of code for the Android version of Stylo a few months ago, I had no idea how many late-night debugging sessions awaited me. Today, the app is finally ready for testing and I can breathe. How it started It all started with a simple question from a friend: "Why doesn't Stylo have an Android app?" And I answered like a typical programmer: "It'll be done in a week." Well, it wasn't. The web version worked great, but a mobile app is a completely different world. We wanted people to have Stylo on their phones — on the bus, at a coffee shop, wherever they need to quickly fix some text. So I said, alright, let's try it. Kotlin, Compose, and all those fancy things I decided to do it properly . Not some quick & dirty prototype, but a real production app. So Kotlin (of course), Jetpack Compose instead of those crazy XML layouts, MVVM architecture so I'd still understand it in six months, Hilt for dependency injection, and Room database for offline mode. It