🤔 “Why does learning mobile app development feel way harder than building for the web?”

Most beginners today jump into coding through web dev because it feels fast, visual, forgiving, and honestly… fun!


But the moment they try building Android apps, the vibe suddenly changes:


new languages, heavy setup, long builds, and tons of steps before even seeing a single button on screen.


It just felt like something is unnecessarily complicated.

Meanwhile, vibe-coding and AI tools have already opened the doors for normal people to build decent web apps - so we wondered:

“Wait… what if making Android apps could be as simple as building a web app?


What if it’s not ‘hard’, we’re just doing it the old way?”

And like any good maker-brain moment, we didn’t think too much - we just tried building it.

🐬 Introducing Dolphin (Open Source, Beta)

A fun experimental side-project by me & Adhil Shan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adhil-shan/)

Dolphin is our small attempt to let people build Android apps using React + Vite while still accessing native features.


Not claiming it’s perfect, not claiming it’s the future - just curious enough to try and … it works. 😅

It’s open source, still Beta, and honestly there’s a lot to figure out - but we thought it was cool enough to share now instead of “one day when it’s ready”.

🎉 But… I didn’t stop there

I am also working on a vibe-coding tool built on top of Dolphin so that anyone can build Android apps in a simple, straight-forward, “just type what you want” kind of way.

More updates soon - this is just us having fun, building things we wish existed.


If you wanna try, break, laugh, test, or contribute - the repo link is down below, give it a star⭐ to show support.

GitHub Repo : https://github.com/adhilshan/dolphin

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