Android Weekly brought nonsense again. Right as the first item in today's newsletter. The post talks about how in the competitive world of Android development EVERY Android developer should have a strong portfolio on their GitHub to show their skills to potential employers.
The entire short text of the post is about how we're all offered to write an app with a list loaded from the internet, navigation between screens, MVI or MVVM, with cleanly organized files, with async, with unit tests 😆, and DI. And this, I repeat, is not what we need, but so that someone appreciates us.
This is nonsense. The words "every X should" are always a lie, wherever you see them. Nobody owes anybody anything in such context. Obviously, it's just a loud title so we click. Succeeded.
The average employer doesn't need your GitHub so much that it's hard to imagine. You're more likely to solve ten stages of LeetCode (in bigger companies) and talk about life (in smaller companies), nobody has time to examine your GitHub. In the "competitive world" there are dozens like you and very rarely will anyone spend the time of expensive interviewers reading all these sample projects with two screens. They still say little. And you might not have even written them.
But what's not talked about in the post is that such apps are not needed by the employer, but by you. At very early stages of your career. There in interviews usually only superficial knowledge of the stack is required from you, and such knowledge is just covered by such projects. The advice for the first project is listed pretty well.
The main problem at early career stages is that they just don't invite you to interviews from your resume. GitHub won't help with this at all, that's more for the wolves for consultations.
By feeling, among those whose resumes I've seen in my life, some small percentages have useful GitHubs. Among those I've worked with, it's a rarity at all. And everything was fine for everyone. Of course, this makes you stand out from the crowd in rare cases. But they're so rare that you can absolutely calmly live without it.
TLDR: Clickbait with minimal useful information, written only to insert links to their social networks, which again passed into the newsletter.