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You should try the iOS development platform. You can't even run other apps except the app you are building on the emulator (I needed to test my mobile app launching another app feature) not to mention that you are pretty much fucked if a part of the SDK breaks (versus for Android when it's just an open source patch)

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I can confirm this, I’m still waiting for Apple to patch sign in with apple on simulators, where you can’t sign in at all or sign in periodically breaks. It’s been like this since the xcode 12 beta. Regardless I still feel its a far better experience than developing for Android.

>Regardless I still feel its a far better experience than developing for Android.

How so? I enjoy that on Android at least I can fix things manually or some open source contributor will soon jump on it to fix it for me. You have to wait for Apple to fix things.

Android is open-source but large parts of it aren't - for example, the google play services libs.

The open parts can take literal years to get a fix merged and deployed, so "some open source contributor fixing it" happens very rarely and isn't something you can rely on. Even when that happens, if the bug was in the core SDK instead of in one of the support libs, you'd have to wait like 5 years until most users get the fixed version of the code on their devices.

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