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skydoves/android-developer-roadmap
🗺 The Android Developer Roadmap offers comprehensive learning paths to help you understand Android ecosystems.
A visual learning roadmap for Android development, covering everything from the platform basics through Jetpack Compose, architecture patterns, and common libraries. It's a static image with an accompanying Android app that renders the map, plus a multipart blog series from Stream. Aimed at developers who want a structured overview of what to learn, not a tutorial on how to learn it.
The roadmap image itself is well-organized and genuinely covers the breadth of the ecosystem — Activities, Fragments, Jetpack, Compose, architecture patterns, testing — without being superficial. It ships in 16+ language translations, which is unusual effort for a reference project. The companion Android app means you can actually run and zoom the map on a device rather than squinting at a PNG. The linked Stream blog series adds enough depth that the roadmap functions as a table of contents for real content.
The core artifact is a PNG image, which means it's hard to navigate at any useful zoom level on a phone and impossible to hyperlink nodes to documentation. The repository has essentially no code worth studying — the Kotlin app is a thin wrapper that renders the image in Compose, so there's nothing here for developers who want to see real-world patterns in action. The roadmap hasn't been meaningfully updated since 2022 in terms of its structure; the ecosystem has moved significantly (Compose is now the default, not an alternative) and the map doesn't reflect that shift in emphasis. There's also a thin line between 'roadmap' and 'index of things Stream has written blog posts about.'