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I do Android dev and have contracted for 5 years. It's a different job than full time work. Most of the clients you'll find are products whose core is mobile,
by muzani 3y ago
I do Android dev and have contracted for 5 years. It's a different job than full time work.
Most of the clients you'll find are products whose core is mobile, but they don't have the budget for it. Some will be huge. They have maybe 4 or so mobile teams but they want to add a new feature.
Back in the heights of VC money, these were startups raising $300m or something, under pressure to use that money to grow. Those were great times to freelance. Now, it's probably a company that has laid off their entire team but now needs to make changes. Little money and no documentation.
Some would recommend spreading out into other mobile things (iOS/Flutter/RN), but I'd say that's doubling down on a market that may not exist.
I'd say do a different market like React which you can learn from. There's no good books on how to do Compose + Flow afaik, but there's plenty of great books on React. You can learn established methods. It's more of a low risk/medium returns approach, while you keep your experience on Android as a high risk/high returns skill.