Please give me back Symbian C++ versus the experience of using the Android NDK.

And if you prefer a more modern example, Android is indeed worse to use than UWP or iOS.

When they release stable releases, they are actually betas, and updated documentation is scattered around Medium and G+ posts, alongside Google IO and DevBytes videos, why bother updating the official documentation.

After 10 years, the NDK still feels like a 20% job from a team that is forced to accept that Android should provide a bit more than just 100% Java.