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 Android dies soon then Linux phones will certainly get more popular. But if Android doesn’t get completely closed then Linux phones will be just forgotten by most people.
This is mostly for myself, but if I develop anything I’d provide as open-source. Currently I’m using a custom ROM and if things stay open and reliable for custom ROMs in the next years, then I’d just stick with it.
Even Linux desktop is sometimes problematic after all these years, imagine Linux android then…