Comment by Fordec
20 days ago
Welp, I was euphemistically already not a fan of the developer experience for Android, now it's straight dead to me.
No reason to ever touch another day of Kotlin.
Come to think of it, why am I even on Android now as a user?
What's the alternative?
The better alternative? Dunno. An alternative is iPhone and just take some of the benefits that comes with it. It's been a much more closed ecosystem from the start, but it's owned it. Google had a competitive advantage over that but they seem intent on throwing those advantages away with no foreseeable other upsides.
In development, working on completely other problem spaces to mobile development at all. It's not 2012 anymore and there are other noteworthy growth areas to spend time on.
But one think in the short term was tonight I just spent some hours migrating registered accounts away using a Gmail account to Proton.
Dumb phone, Linux on arm, Older devices with custom OS.