With Google making it more closed every year, I wonder if is it worth it. I don’t want to learn it to find a job or anything, it’s purely for open source development.
I’ve seen a few devs dropping FOSS apps due to Google decisions. Like the developer of a music player I used (Phocid):
According to him and I agree:
Because Google is essentially killing apps distributed outside of Google Play, I have lost interest in Android development and plan to switch to a different OS once my current five-year-old phone dies.
If you want to build something fast and not deal with the ridiculous and ever-changing complexity that is Eclipse/Kotlin, consider Flutter. It’s cross-platform so if there turns out to be a Linux phone that gets past the stage of novelty, you won’t be re-writing it.
Flutter has it’s downsides, but it’s a pretty good platform overall. Many Android (and iOS) apps are done in it.