I never liked building native smartphone apps. XCode and Android Studio are annoying to work with, and don't get me started on the bureaucratic hell you have to go through to get your apps published in the stores.
But these days I'm building iOS apps. Lots of them. They're not for you, though. They're hyper-personal apps generated for me by an AI agent. I don't have to touch Xcode (I only occasionally look at the code out of curiosity) and I don't interact with the App Store. I simply sideload the apps onto my phone and my wife's phone over USB.
Thanks to LLM agents we can have access almost any low- to medium-complexity app for under five dollars in inference costs. And all of that without having to deal with Apple's mess (Xcode, App Store bureaucracy) or the mess created by other developers (tracking, intrusive ads, expensive subscriptions for trivial features).
It's amazing.