Open-source software (OSS) is a rapidly growing industry that provides many benefits to the individuals and businesses who use it, as well as to its programmers.
However, for developers especially, contributing to open-source software provides many valuable advantages and opens doors to a number of highly lucrative and rewarding opportunities, and there are not too many other industries that can boast the massive number of global contributions like the open-source community can.
While each person may have different individual motivations, here is a list of some of the most common reasons why developers contribute to open-source software:
Improve Coding Skills
Gain Early Experience
Increase Community and Peer Recognition
Greater Job Prospects
improve the project for other developers
Earn money
Improve Software on a User and Business Level.
For the junior android developers that want to learn how to collaborate to the world of open source just check out little tutorials I did to help you kickstart your first PR(Pull Request )link below
Credit to https://clearcode.cc/blog/why-developers-contribute-open-source-software/
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