[iainmerrick]

Hmm, I don't think Java has had it nearly as bad historically (possibly apart from the old mobile Java profiles, which I agree were quite painful). Any code using the core classes (math, collections, basic I/O) would always work fine on any JVM, including Android. Porting pure Java code to Android has always been very easy, as it should be.

Whereas I've found with C# that even perfectly innocuous-looking functions would be mysteriously unavailable in Silverlight, say. It has been very hard to pick a C# library subset that's both portable and useful, and Microsoft seem to have taken an awfully long time to sort that out.

[oaiey]

I ported huge amounts of code to .NET Core and it was effortless. It always depends which API your code uses. I think that is similar to your Java experience.

The Core API factoring was focused to remove deprecated API. When not using "deprecated" framework API, the porting is pretty easy.