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Re:Austin, Denver, Detroit: Good Places to Be a Software Eng... by starwind0 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @06:14PM (#16433816)
Android devs. We can find iOS easily. No one wants to do Android. Seems weird given that android is OS. But I live in Austin now, not Denver. Denver is terrible.
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Re:Austin, Denver, Detroit: Good Places to Be a Software Eng... by matwood on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @06:43PM (#16433984)
> Android devs. We can find iOS easily. No one wants to do Android. Seems weird given that android is OS.

Having done both, Android development is a pain and just not fun. The simulator/emulator situation has improved a lot which helps, but it used to be a terrible development experience.

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Re:Austin, Denver, Detroit: Good Places to Be a Software Eng... by markcerqueira on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @07:01PM (#16434076)
When did you last do Android? I've done both for about eight years and while the development tools at first on Android were total trash I cannot stand Xcode and the iOS development ecosystem these days.

Throw in Swift and things get worse. On the other side, Java/Kotlin interoperability in Android Studio is great and the tooling keeps improving.

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Re:Austin, Denver, Detroit: Good Places to Be a Software Eng... by starwind0 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:04PM (#16434367)
I still do Android. A lot better since we went to studio, but it's still far far from where it needs to be.
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Re:Austin, Denver, Detroit: Good Places to Be a Software Eng... by starwind0 on Monday February 26, 2018 @04:24PM (#16469110)
Yeahhhh. Heck just trying to do UI or integration tests are a pain. Not to mention the things I do to match the iOS animations my counter part got for free.
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