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Maybe I’m special (and it was 6-10 years ago), but after becoming proficient and pretty deep in osx/ios development I took an android project and it wasn’t obvious AT ALL. If it were a new job and not a project pushed to me at the same position I had, pretty sure it would be difficult to keep it.

Of course that depends on average expectations. Some people may learn and do and relax and still outperform if these are low.

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Pre-Kotlin and Jetpack Android were very tedious. Even simple things like handing button click events and changing the text of a label at runtime were not obvious or simple, and you had to worry about backwards compatibility libraries to a larger extent than any other platform.

From what I understand modern Android has become much more pleasant to develop for.

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