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

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!

14 points by karakoram - 4 comments

4 Comments

drrob [3 hidden]5 mins 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.

mattmanser [3 hidden]5 mins ago

https://github.com/dotnet/maui/wiki/Using-AI-to-Work-on-.NET...

mrKola [3 hidden]5 mins 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.

MattDamonSpace [3 hidden]5 mins ago

I’ll be curious to see how many new vibe coded apps make it to a 2.0