[codethief]

Interesting, I'm not an Android developer myself but at least our Android teams seem to really really like Compose. In fact yesterday I overheard one of the guys say, "Almost everyone in the industry is switching to Compose these days". (Not sure that's true but still.)

[grishka]

I'm personally on the opposite end of this spectrum. My projects don't use neither Kotlin nor even AppCompat. The AndroidX libraries that I need (because Google can't be assed to ship them as part of the system) like RecyclerView I use as my own fork that doesn't depend on anything else. I wholeheartedly despise what Google does to the Android development ecosystem. Google is not a good steward of Android.

Other developers I know approach Compose with caution and mostly use it for experiments, not in their real apps.

[fidotron]

I'm commenting here to agree, and because what you say is so specifically similar to my outbursts a good number of my colleagues would mistakenly believe I am you from this comment, and they regularly accuse me of being the only one!

It would be incredibly hard to do a worse job of shepherding the Android platform than Google have managed to do. It's no surprise iOS is growing.