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by codethief 1099 days ago
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.)
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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.

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.