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It feels like the giants of the computer industry want to own the software ecosystem to such a degree, that distributing software becomes a challenging pain. This leads to a lot of frustration when a lot of time goes into things that should be simple. My profession is a backend developer. I did not anticipate just how much hassle it would be to package and distribute a portable app in a simple way. But I am learning new stuff, and once the initial bits are done, it could speed things up.

And yes, there will be import routine to convert data from old application to new.

There has been some other features in the works, but anything to prevent loss of information should have priority. Things has been slow until now, the final weeks at my old job drained me in ways I could not imagine and relaxing vacation was needed. Notes backup is first step, note transfer /sync is next, to allow migrating notes.

@darkling@mstdn.social My main issue is not the frameworks, though, but distributing it. They claim their interest is to protect the user from damaging software, but have ways to make it so that software could do no damage. It should be so easy to create apps to run everywhere, that would be safe for the user to install. But Google, Microsoft and, by far the worst, Apple, seem overly eager to control everything you put on their systems, and get money for it, even for free stuff. For linux, it is a breeze

You can upgrade the project manually by modifying gradle.properties and setting versions: kotlin.version=1.9.21 compose.version=1.5.11 and running sh gradlew wrapper --gradle-version latest To upgrade gradle to 8.5

@darkling@mstdn.social I do not disagree with you though. UI frameworks are a jungle and it is bizarre just how much complexity is needed and how many competitive frameworks one must create. The UI framework I used for TF though, was easy enough to understand, and in a language I know well. Now I must venture into a bit of "the unknown". The most important is to figure out if what is needed is actually supported. And I am learning some new stuff that can come in handy. I could become full stack. Ohno