I\'ve been working on the android platform for 8 years now. Every time I leave it for some time I come back feeling like a lost lamb. Mobile moves just as fast if not faster than web. Because there aren\'t a lot of frameworks, native things can be deprecated or enhanced fairly swift. When I left Seattle I got a job doing application support, but there wasn\'t really any mobile work to it\...there actually wasn\'t mobile at all (0.5%). This time period seems to have set me back in staying up to date. I was keeping up with things happening on the play store and deprecated packages but I wasn\'t building (which is what I love). I can\'t sit here and blame that job for this regression though. I took the risky position and it\'s up to me to keep my skills fresh even when I\'m not actively using them. Those 6 months I used to do more security things and got my security+ which isn\'t really a bad trade off, but how do I get back? How do I get back to not feeling like I\'m not always googling first and implementing second? I\'m not sure anyone has a real answer for this. What I will try to do is build more outside of work. I recently got a review on the first app I ever made (Filler Counter) and honestly I was never going to update it because I didn\'t see a point. I think I\'m going to update that and all my other apps now. I might not have the code for everything but I can recreate a lot of things from the UI (they are very simple). By the end of summer I should be using Navgraphs, all things androidx, and kotlin without a second thought. I find I learn the best when building things for myself vs solely copying codelabs. So, all that being said wish me luck. *P.S. I really hate that Google didn\'t even try a virtual Google I/O this year*