android vs ios

[red pecan]

For North America, especially Canada, do you think there are more Ios or Android developers? Im more interested in Ios but at the same time, I feel like Ios dev is much more competitive than Android is

[viral cove]

If you are trying to choose a direction why not look at cross platform? 👀 The future is more and more web based, react / react native

[steady whale]

Use java problem solved

But yea i guess there aremore ios since ppl thinks its more "secure and better"

Based on the camera

[red pecan]

I prefer native. I’ve seen a lot of people talking bout the limitations of cross platform for platform specific issues

Im currently considering android/frontend

I don’t like backend

[viral cove]

With todays react native and especially with expo the experience is supposedly great

I haven’t tried it myself but I’ve hears great things

[red pecan]

I mean Im not against it but I prefer being an expert, with the ability to go very deep

If I’m using flutter lets say

[viral cove]

I don’t recommend flutter

[red pecan]

I can be stuck with ios or android specific issues

Or react native

[viral cove]

Flutter doesn’t use the native layers it builds its own hacky solutions

While expo uses the native apis

[red pecan]

I can be an expert in Rn but I can only go so far without platform specific knowledge

[red pecan]

Never heard of expo

Oo

[viral cove]

Iirc expo is packages you use with rn

Check it out

[red pecan]

But nah

I still prefer kotlin or swift for mobile lol

[viral cove]

I mean it looks like you’ve made up ur mind already :p

[red pecan]

Even tho under the hood it compiles natively

[red pecan]

Nope

Im stuck between doing front end or native android

On one hand, I have a pretty good grasp on css

Html should be the easiest

And I’ve coded in kotlin and Python

So js shouldn’t be difficult

[viral cove]

If you learn frontend webdev then you can easily use RN for mobile apps if needed

Doesnt that seem like a win win

[red pecan]

But I feel like front end devs are frequently tasked to do backend if there’s no backend dev available

[viral cove]

Nah not in the projects I’ve done

[red pecan]

So it’s like a full stack dev with specialty in front end

[viral cove]

But more and more backend work is merging with frontend

[red pecan]

Interesting

[red pecan]

True

[viral cove]

Honestly in 5 years I’d say you can’t get away with not doing any backend work

[red pecan]

I mean in big tech

People are prolly so specialised

Front end may be broken down into further areas

[viral cove]

Nah

[red pecan]

In smaller companies, yea can’t get away without doing backend

[viral cove]

Better to have someone well rounded

[red pecan]

This is understandable

[viral cove]

I see more small companies having dedicated frontend and backend teams than big tech lol

But again

Depends which team ur on

[red pecan]

So ur saying that front end dev is just full stack dev specialised in front end, same for backend devs?

[viral cove]

Yeah

[red pecan]

Lmao what

In that case, I should seriously consider android lol

I don’t mind doing web but I prefer being an expert

[viral cove]

Oh well

[red pecan]

And if i work on both front end and back end, im not a specialist

[viral cove]

I tried to change ur mind

I give up lol

[red pecan]

Oh u were saying companies prefer people who are well rounded

Than experts

[viral cove]

You are limiting the scope of jobs u can take

Tbh if I could choose again I wouldn’t choose developer lol

[red pecan]

Why

[viral cove]

You sit at a desk for 8+ hours a day that’s why :p

[red pecan]

And btw let’s say i wanna do front end, how much of backend do u think is minimum? Being able to build a rest api..

[red pecan]

How long have u worked as a dev?

[viral cove]

Like 3 years

[red pecan]

Full stack?

I mean, front or back more

[viral cove]

Mostly backend / devops some frontend this year

[red pecan]

Do u regret web dev tho

[viral cove]

No

I wanna do more

[red pecan]

Why? Cuz u wanna suffer more

[viral cove]

So I can influence the entire application