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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by raydev on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:52PM (#22186870)
I think you’re touching on something extremely important here. IME, anecdotally, not backed up by data: experienced native Android devs are getting harder and harder to find.

The ones I’ve known personally hated it so much they moved to backend or full stack jobs.

Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by giovannibonetti on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:12PM (#22187995)
Interesting, I always thought it would be harder to hire iOS devs since the initial cost is higher - you need to buy a more expensive Apple computer and pay an yearly $99 subscription just to get started.

For that reason I thought that there would be way more Android devs. After all, a teenager with a regular computer can start developing Android apps and download the APK in a cheap Android device without paying anything.

On the other hand you mentioned _experienced_ native Android devs, while my thought applies more to junior Android devs, and maybe the two things don't correlate as well as expected.

Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by asdff on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @10:42PM (#22188655)
you don't need a mac to build ios apps.