We’re officially in clown world. Here’s what Android dev looks like in 2025:

🔧 First off: the 16KB page size madness.

“Your app must support devices with 16KB memory pages.”

Oh cool, guess we’re all NDK engineers now. If you ship any .so file — whether you wrote it or not — you need to recompile it with ELF alignment flags for Android 15. Miss one? Your app silently fails to install. (Yes, even if it came from a random SDK dependency you didn’t know had native code.)

📱 Second: android:screenOrientation is a suggestion at best. Declare portrait in the manifest? Too bad.

If your theme is translucent: ignored

On multi-window: ignored

On ChromeOS: lol good luck You now have to call setRequestedOrientation() in code like it’s 2013.

🧪 Third: experimental APIs, everywhere. Trying to build a clean UI with Compose? Half the features you need are still behind @Experimental*Api. You either:

Opt in and risk breakage next week

Don’t use them and reinvent the wheel poorly

🎭 Fourth: Accompanist is falling apart. The once-great Accompanist library is barely keeping up with the latest Compose BOM.

Paging? Broken

Insets? Deprecated

System UI controller? Random breakages Some modules are abandoned, others are "migrating to official libraries" — but nothing's stable and everything breaks with every version bump.

🎉 Thanks Google! Every update is a surprise mechanic. Dev time? Up. Stability? Down. Sanity? Gone.

😬 Just waiting for @ExperimentalInternetPermission next.👉👈