You don't 100% need them to release it, there's projects like Skip:

https://skip.dev/

Which was open sourced sometime back, and builds iOS and Android apps, which is really neat, because it means your Android app's logic etc is all natively compiled, only a shim of Java to run it. I wish Google would let people publish standard compiled binaries for their OS instead of just making everything rely on the ART.

Honestly, I am jealous of the number of RAD IDEs from the 90s and early 00s we need to start investing in good tooling again.