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Google Maps: 5 years Android: 3-4 years GCP: <2 years gRPC: 2 years (Kotlin, Python, Node, Rust, Scala) From this and your other reply, you seem to have bee
by nevi-me 8y ago
Google Maps: 5 years
Android: 3-4 years
GCP: <2 years
gRPC: 2 years (Kotlin, Python, Node, Rust, Scala)
From this and your other reply, you seem to have been burnt by something in Android.
The mobile market for which I develop products is made up of over 80% Android. Whether Sundar Pichai decides to kill Android tomorrow or now, I'm not going to let that get in the way of me making a living from a platform that currently exists with a significant market share re. my target market.
- pjmlp 8y agoAndroid APIs get partially rebooted at every Google IO, and the NDK is what it is, no need to add extra immature tooling into the mix, which isn't even officially endorsed by the Android team. In that regard one is safer (CV) using Qt or Xamarin, given JavaScript, C++, C# and F#.