Interesting POV, but I'd much rather develop for Android than any other platform. You are correct that currently developing for Android is not for the faint of

Interesting POV, but I'd much rather develop for Android than any other platform. You are correct that currently developing for Android is not for the faint of heart. Happily, it also turns out understanding Java and Gradle and IntelliJ is generally useful for a software engineer and let me develop for many more targets and vendors than one. And since all the components are all open source, the community can provide excellent updates, bugfixes, support, libraries, frameworks, etc. Not to bash on Swift, but even with the incoming Swift 4 they still don't even have an ABI compatibility story (leading to bigger apps since they to bundle the runtime, and framework/library devs can't offer binaries), and they even had to break source compatibility (though the compiler will have a flag to compile Swift 3). And since most Android app development actually depends on the Android Support Libraries, you can provide great compatibility to current devices. Whereas - and this is according to iOS devs - supporting the latest version of iOS usually means abandoning supporting previous versions. Also, I heard the newest xcode 9 just got refactoring support - cute!