So I used to be an Android dev and left years ago because of how mismanaged their upper levels of the stack became. Their Java API was never good (j2me was clea

So I used to be an Android dev and left years ago because of how mismanaged their upper levels of the stack became. Their Java API was never good (j2me was cleaner) but somehow the extensions rarely represented an improvement and just introduced more new problems. The low level pieces of Android have dramatically improved over the years though, and are clearly battle tested at enormous scale. Binder, of recent security problems, is functionally very useful. The graphics system handles DRM and HDR on different hardware surprisingly well these days, and even the audio stack is far less annoying than it used to be. Considering that Android devices are expected to run continuously this is no small achievement. Some years ago I wrote and deployed Android code that decodes and plays video, with audio, constantly, for months on end, synchronized to an external clock, on a random cheap OEM board, while downloading the next one over a flaky network, with relatively minor alterations to the OS being necessary. It may be possible on other things but I would probably still be debugging it.