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The Android Maintenance Nightmare: Why the Google Play Store App Count Plummeted

2025-06-08

A hobby Android developer with five years of experience maintaining MusicSync, a Google Play Music + Podcast replacement, shares the struggles of Android app maintenance and explains the 47% decline in Google Play Store apps. The article highlights the significant challenges compared to backend development, including Java/Kotlin compatibility issues, breaking changes from Google's frequent library updates (e.g., ExoPlayer, Google Auth), dropping support for older Android versions, forced upgrades across various components (Android Studio, Gradle, SDKs), unpredictable UI design guideline changes, and the deprecation or lack of maintenance for crucial third-party libraries like Picasso, Glide, OkHttp, and EventBus. The dual versioning scheme for Android versions and API levels adds further confusion. The conclusion emphasizes the higher maintenance cost of Android apps compared to server-side development.

Python vs. Go: A Tale of Two Web Servers and Astronomical Resource Differences

2025-03-08

This article compares a simple FastAPI (Python) and Go web server, highlighting Python's excessive resource consumption in production. The Python Docker image is significantly larger than the Go equivalent, requiring orders of magnitude more RAM. This leads to higher server costs and operational complexities. Further, Python code maintenance and upgrades present challenges, such as GIL limitations, exception handling, and package dependency upgrades. The author uses personal experience and industry examples to illustrate the impact of language choice on project costs and engineering efficiency, suggesting Go or similar lightweight languages for resource-constrained or performance-critical applications.