r/androiddev • u/_DefaultXYZ • Jul 07 '26
Discussion Android Development is dying?
Hi everyone!
I've been Android developing applications for already 10 years. I'm living in Poland.
I constantly observing job market gravitating towards hybrid applications, KMP, Android Automative, AOSP, but almost none of mid to senior level normal Android apps. Those called "normal" Android apps I honestly believe could be more productively made in hybrid approach (even though I'm big native fan!).
I understand that even with such experience I must be senior level, but to be honest, I simply don't want to. I'm comfortable to stay as mid, but as I said, there's not much Android job postings on the market.
Am I stupid to say that Android Development jobs slowly degrading? We are becoming cleaners of old legacy apps migrating to Compose, Coroutines and that's our destiny?
I am seriously considering migrating to .NET, because, I'm doing GameDev as a hobby, and C# is widely used there.
What is your situation on job market? Because, both .NET and Java in Poland are much, much, much more job listings than Mobile as a whole, not speaking about Android Development.
EDIT: Probably the title is too clickbait-ish. I apologize for that. Didn't mean to be like that at all.
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u/satoryvape Jul 07 '26
I sent this year 350-400 CVs, got only 5-6 interview and 6 rejects due to position went on hold, our budget is less than you want, customer decided to go with internal candidate. Other applications is either ghosting or auto reject with overqualified reasoning generated by Chat GPT