[j765]

>The sad truth is that the path of an architect or principal / staff engineer is closed for a pure android developer. The pure android dev simply won’t have the required skills to fulfill those positions.

Is this true?

[generalpf]

Not at all, I work at a well-known company that has Staff and Principal Engineers for iOS and Android as well as backend.

[icemanx]

and what will those Staff / Principal Android Engineers do if they quit?