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Re point 2. The iPad has a much larger screen then the iPhone so now you will be building apps with custom screens and layouts... I think the biggest problem w

Re point 2. The iPad has a much larger screen then the iPhone so now you will be building apps with custom screens and layouts... I think the biggest problem with the Android marketplace is that unless you are in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom or United States you cannot actually sell your apps since you cannot set up a Google Checkout account! No such problem with the Apple App store...

zaphar 17y ago
Not to mention that the hardware available to the iPad is probably going to be considerably better than the hardware on an iPhone. All those iPhone developers who previously only had to worry about the iPhone and iPod touch now have a third to add to the mix. And as more versions of each get released the landscape gets worse and worse. Android may have come out of the gate with a more difficult landscape but the App Store will not always be immune either.
- gte910h 17y ago
  While CPU power differences could make a big issues, especially for games, I still say apple's fixed layout system is stronger. You load up a new screen with a call that specifies the layout file (called a XIB) on iPhone. You can then feasibly have different layouts for iPad and for 320x480 phones. I could easily support 5 of those. With a layout manager, you have to LOOK to see if it turned out well on the platforms (of which there are already 5-8 you care about, many times more than iphone). What android needs, is a gui builder.
gte910h 17y ago
Actually, I don't think many will. For the ipad, if you don't explicitly support the larger layout, you just get a smaller app in the middle of the screen that's still picture perfect. And for IB, if you chose to target the iPad itself, you can just make a second XIB file that has your iPad layout for each screen, then load them up depending on hardware. It will be slightly more work, but it will still be backed by the GUI tool, and it will still be pretty easy. You aren't forced into layout manager. As far as iPodTouch iPhone differences, those are really small for the perspective of most apps, or are total deal breakers. Either way, you're usually not doing much accommodation.

zaphar 17y ago

Not to mention that the hardware available to the iPad is probably going to be considerably better than the hardware on an iPhone. All those iPhone developers who previously only had to worry about the iPhone and iPod touch now have a third to add to the mix. And as more versions of each get released the landscape gets worse and worse. Android may have come out of the gate with a more difficult landscape but the App Store will not always be immune either.

gte910h 17y ago
While CPU power differences could make a big issues, especially for games, I still say apple's fixed layout system is stronger. You load up a new screen with a call that specifies the layout file (called a XIB) on iPhone. You can then feasibly have different layouts for iPad and for 320x480 phones. I could easily support 5 of those. With a layout manager, you have to LOOK to see if it turned out well on the platforms (of which there are already 5-8 you care about, many times more than iphone). What android needs, is a gui builder.

gte910h 17y ago

Actually, I don't think many will. For the ipad, if you don't explicitly support the larger layout, you just get a smaller app in the middle of the screen that's still picture perfect. And for IB, if you chose to target the iPad itself, you can just make a second XIB file that has your iPad layout for each screen, then load them up depending on hardware. It will be slightly more work, but it will still be backed by the GUI tool, and it will still be pretty easy. You aren't forced into layout manager. As far as iPodTouch iPhone differences, those are really small for the perspective of most apps, or are total deal breakers. Either way, you're usually not doing much accommodation.