Turning the Page

The Warescription program will be ending at the end of 2021.All subscribers will get book updates and access to the other Warescription benefitsthrough then. I am expecting to put out one more update to Elements of Android Jetpackand one or two more of Elements of Android Room.

And, by the end of the year, I plan to release the final editions of all of my booksunder a Creative Commons license.

Three years ago, I had a choice:

I could put my first generation books, headlined by The Busy Coder���s Guide to Android Development,on a shelf and start over from scratch to cover Kotlin and the Jetpack libraries

I could shut down the Warescription

I took the first option, because I am stubborn and did not want the Warescriptionto end that way.

Earlier this year, I had a similar choice:

I could plan to write 1-3 books on Jetpack Compose and rewrite around 2,000 pages of second-generationmaterial to use Compose UI

I could shut down the Warescription

This time, I am taking the second option. I have few readers now, and Compose-ifiying my bookswould be a lot of work benefiting fairly few people.

Besides, after over 13 years of writing and updating books about Android, I���d like to try some other approaches.I���d like to do more with this blog, for example. I will still curate the jetc.dev newsletter for Jetpack Compose development.I���d like to get back into my workwith code transparency.And I have a few more things in mind beyond that.

So, this isn���t goodbye ��� it is just hello to different stuff, perhaps for different people.