Teams arrive mid-project more often than we'd like. The patterns repeat.

The unnecessary native decision. Someone assumed "native means quality" without testing whether React Native would have worked. Now there are two codebases, two release cycles, features shipping weeks apart per platform, and a maintenance burden that compounds forever.

Kotlin that's actually Java. The code compiles, but it's verbose, ceremony-heavy, fighting the language instead of using it. Coroutines structured like callbacks. Null safety treated as an obstacle. Data classes ignored. The result is harder to maintain than Java would have been.

Compose migrations that doubled the timeline. Jetpack Compose is the future of Android UI. That doesn't mean rewriting a working Views codebase mid-project makes sense. We've helped teams recover from these rewrites.

The fragmentation surprise. Testing on two Pixel phones and assuming coverage. Then discovering Samsung handles permissions differently, older Android versions need workarounds, and "works on my device" isn't a release criterion.

We're not here to judge how you got here. We stabilize what exists, fill gaps, and help whoever's already on the project become more effective.