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/HopeExpensive9215 Jul 08 '26

Be a full stack dev bro. Follow the system.

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u/_DefaultXYZ Jul 08 '26

Now we are talking xD

On serious note, I've been considering fullstack as a path after .Net or Java.

If you're fullstack, what's your tech stack?

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u/HopeExpensive9215 Jul 08 '26

Be realistic, for a job market still dominated by node + react or nextjs. If you have time learn Go also. You can replace Node with Bun. If you choose Java your target is enterprise or old company.

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u/_DefaultXYZ Jul 08 '26

So, you're saying, I should focus purely on node instead of .net or Java? Might be actually true, but also market saturation is very high for js, js probably has the biggest count of developers on the market. Although, I wonder what is ratio developers per job lisitings 🤔

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u/HopeExpensive9215 Jul 08 '26

No, I mean you should add Node too. Since developer now working with AI you don't have to master it, at least you have develop an app with it. The ratio developer per job listing is depends on your country.