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Yeah pretty much since android studio replaced eclipse, things got better on the android side. Though I still find android a pain from an ecosystem perspective.

Haven't done a lot of straight up native apps, but I use the tools for react native & cordova stuff.

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Android dev has improved by leaps and bounds. iOS dev has drastically regressed.

I'd argue that Swift is one of the best things that happened to iOS development in the past few years.

Compiler that regularly crashes. Dev environment that regularly crashes, behaves strangely and is full of bugs. Really long compile times.

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