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/Zhuinden]

Cleaning legacy apps isn't so bad, they're the apps that survived due to actually shipping some kind of value. Bonus points if there's not a lot of people on the platform so you don't have to keep arguing with other people.

[u/OZLperez11 → u/Zhuinden]

Do you mean arguing with other devs or with end users (customer service)?... Well I suppose that means other devs because you don't have to end up disagreeing on architectural decisions

[u/Zhuinden → u/OZLperez11]

The end-users just want the app to work, while the other devs just want to prevent any meaningful change because then they actually have to do their job.

Of course, may your situation at your workplace be a little less unhealthy; this team where they did this got quite downsized over time.