[ARandomerDude]

That wasn't my point. You have to make a living, and in that regard fun is a nice-to-have. My point was even things people do for hobbies often become toilsome once they are your business.

My neighbor has a job unrelated to carpentry, and woodworking is his hobby. He doesn't want to ruin it.

[giantg2]

And I'm saying that I made Android apps as a hobby and now that I work as a dev, I don't see any point to continuing as a hobby.

[ofrzeta]

If you still want to code as a hobby you could do "programming" opposed to "software engineering" as someone in this thread has pointed out. Personally I could see making web apps with a Web 1.0 design as a fun project although probably I would still structure projects "professionally" :)

I get that it's not much fun to code apps (which I did for fun, too) because you need to do some kind of marketing to get a user base because if you don't it's not much fun to have an orphaned app in a store.

There's still a place for fringe programming if you feel the urge. Or go fishing or do gardening.