Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?

6•karakoram•1h ago

What is going on in the world of pure IOS/Android app development?

How is AI/LLMs affecting app development? what has changed in App Development in the past 2-5 years? What does a career in only app development look like nowadays?

Thank you!

Comments

mrKola•46m ago

It is bad. Layoffs everywhere. Google is becoming apple. Companies want you to do the job of 6 engineers using ai.

The market is saturated for new apps.

drrob•10m ago

I'm have a game on both app stores, built in .net Maui. It earns enough to keep a roof over my head.

AI is useless when developing with Maui, as it's too new of a development framework for any AI's knowledgebase to have a clue what to do with it.

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