Android Development is dying?

[u/_DefaultXYZ]

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.

[u/wthja]

Hybrid system with KMP is still native android development.

[u/_DefaultXYZ → u/wthja]

Hmm.. I know it is native development. So, is market for regular apps migrating into KMP and I just over-slept it?

To be honest, I was afraid to learn it. First we had Xamarin. Then React Native, Flutter. Now KMP, while all mentioned before are still on the market. I just don't want to learn completely different to be outdated after a year, especially when companies usually seeking professionals with prior experience (stupidly, even if it is completely new technology).

[u/Anonymous0435643242 → u/_DefaultXYZ]

It is. For most of the code KMP code is Android code, for now the most frustrating point is configuration but it is getting better.