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Sep 9, 2026 A hull that leaves My setup for web apps assumes a machine that is always on, holding the running thing. A phone app breaks that assumption completely. The app runs on a phone in someone else's pocket, and there is no berth of mine to keep it at. Here is the local Android dev setup I ended up with instead, walked end to end. What runs on the laptop, what the emulator is for, where the build happens, and how a saved file reaches a running app a second later. workstation · infrastructure