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Hello. (Android) dev here contemplating about the future of my profession.

I am looking for a specialization or a field in my profession where i can be free of dependencies from GAFAM (The big five)
Basically software development is me only using dependencies and stuff they and 3rdparty people have created and then it works or it doesnt. Or if you dont keep it up2date it wont work because deprecation and breaking changes. I was web developer before and changed to android because of all the libs and frameworks one needed to wield for proper development. And now android has mostly become the same. Vanilla android is easy, but u start using google apis or 3rdparty services u quickly realize how far u get away from your actual usecase. Usermanagement, oauth, 2fa, userdatamanagement, crossplattform, offline, syncing etc.

I am pretty sure the topic came up before (dev fatigue, dependency fatigue) and most of you know what i mean but i might be the recent casualty here.

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    Probably not as common as web and mobile app development, but there are still fields disconnected from it. Take a look at the automotive or industry sector. Although they have their own set of weirdness, you might be able to write c++ or even Java applications for an ECU.
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    i mean thats the modern environment for complex apps. you cant just “wish” for stuff like oauth and everything to go away. what you CAN do, however, is use an oauth or devops service (there are so many now, many have free tiers) to handle all of that for you, so you can focus on the real product like you said
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