Is It Worth to Learn Native Android as a Beginner In 2025?

If you're looking to dive into native Android development nowadays, you need to be aware of a few things depending on your goal. In this video I share my recommendations on what to do with each goal.

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00:00 - Intro
00:37 - What you need to consider if you want to learn Android app development
01:48 - Don’t choose your field purely based on demand
03:47 - 4 possible goals
4:47 - Hobby Developer
05:04 - Indie Developer
7:32 - General Developer
09:24 - Native Developer

[ysslfsdkjf]

If you are an Indie dev i really recommend going native and not cross-platofrm. I went cross-platform and fighting both the app store and the play store as a single person quickly get overwhelming. If you are solo stick to one platform at a time.

[serbanu]

Learning Native Android could be the best thing that can happen to you, especially if you love Kotlin.

[hosseinamini]

As a native Android developer with about 10 yeras of experience, I suggest every beginner after learning core concepts of Android development, strat learning KMP/CMP and then lerning core concepts of iOS development.
Most companies are migrating from native Android apps to KMP/CMP becasue of its growth and similarities with native Android development, like the company I'm working at.

[VivekSingh-bro]

Need roadmap video to pursue Backend Development along with Android Development 😊

[ionizePlaying]

I am Flutter developer, and i still want to learn native development to become better in mobile development at all. For flutter it's needed to develop or update native plugins, some big projects always have custom native plugins. And also i want to learn more about compose multiplatform, because it can be a serious competitor to flutter in future

[ResiliopeDevelop]

Thanks for the insights!!!
Let's hope Epic Games launch their Epic Store so we can put our mobile apps on the market

[moonlight_]

In short, don't start your career as an android developer " go for javascript or java tech stack"
I have not seen this video but yes he is selling android courses and
google android tech stack keeps on changing every 6 months will not help you in long run with more experience
I am telling after 8 years of experience in android development

[blackrider]

In the end, it all comes down to one thing,
"How bad do you want it ?"
(I'm just trynna sound cool lol)

[dgomesdev]

Very clear, straightforward and useful advice to someone who wants to learn Android development!

[xacompany]

I use native Android development for retail industry apps which’s extremely niche 😅

[NissNel]

Native Android / IOS ->
X the joys of learning through the challenges of a focused and engineered developer experience (looking at your design bugs, JS)
X the satisfaction of control and predictability because the embedded/phone/IoT environment are more constrained, thus raising the quality
X transferable experience to other app framework (C#, Java EE)
X much more fun and creative ideas ahead because of access to native devices/sensors
X in this market, time to evolve ourselves to "senior". time matters, but challenges and diversity of experiences as much!

[devatrii]

As a indie app developer I'm putting my efforts in KMP

[John-qtqk]

Thank Philip, for those real true advice

[triihart]

"Is It Worth to Learn Native Android as a Beginner In 2025?"
No, learn plumbing.

[VivekSingh-bro]

Hi Philip, Please make roadmap video of Kotlin Platform 😊.

[sr.s]

Thanks for the great video. One question I have is that, how would you recommend someone to start learning kotlin multiplatform? There doesn't seem to be a lot of resources on it online from some quick searches.

[KasimKamal-ns]

Thank you Philip for you your valuable advice.

[arthurmsiska]

So in other words for freelance and business apps from Scratch, learn Flutter?

[mannanabbasi]

Moral is that "Go and just do that what u like"

[AmitM]

I am working as a full time android developer for 6years now from last one year i am working as flutter developer . I also leaned spring boot and now my company want me to work on apache flink totally confused what to do should i go for it will it be helpful for me 😅