compose-samples

Your concept of Android development looks to be stuck in the 4.4 days. Jetpack Compose and its declarative UI is how modern Android apps are developed. https://github.com/android/compose-samples >Hopefully Flutter will fix that because the difference in usability is night and day. It's just a shame the Dart ecosystem is so dead. I don't see how the difference is night and day when they both use declarative UI's. Whether you use Jetpack Compose/Kotlin or Flutter/Dart is really up to your objectives. As for your claim that the Dart ecosystem is dead - I really don't get that, since Flutter/Dart is the #1 cross-platform development environment.

Just getting back into Android dev myself. Rapid workflow stack: Jetpack Compose / Kotlin, Material Design UI kits and Stripe / Firebase Cloud Functions. The emphasis on being able to go from idea to release in the shortest time frame. Target being Fast Mobile Commerce https://github.com/android/compose-samples https://material.io/resources https://firebase.google.com/docs/use-cases/payments Other than that I'm excited about next-gen low latency audio library Oboe and real-time physically based renderer Filament https://github.com/google/oboe/tree/master/samples https://github.com/google/filament/tree/main/samples Best of Luck ;)