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Congratulations you're clearly an amazing developer if you have to talk about this so weirdly
I do not claim to be amazing, and it's a simple fact that many basic examples/tutorials are named with hello world (and pretty easy to search for that way). A quick Google pulls up e.g. “Hello World!” of push notifications, Problems with simple "hello world" of ListView in Android
And of course I'm also explicitly using Hello World to reference the original comment
Yeah what I think is weird is that you make a bunch of assumptions about how the app is built. Experienced developers imo know that things are unexpectedly difficult all the time. Even when they are supposed to be as simple as you're assuming here.
Absolutely I am making a bunch of assumptions. Following the tried and true Keep It Simple Stupid approach. Because there is no indication given that any more complexity is required, and keeping complexity to a minimum is key to efficient development. If there was anything actually technically impressive (or at least technically impressive sounding) about what they did, I trust they would have mentioned it.
I'm pretty sure this guy was just a project manager or similar. So yeah I am not surprised they're not mentioning technical hurdles.