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It might be just me but when someone says developer friendly I imagine theyre talking about a solid api, easy development cycle, good documentation , helpful co
by dman 16y ago
It might be just me but when someone says developer friendly I imagine theyre talking about a solid api, easy development cycle, good documentation , helpful community. If someone were to talk about one use case thats more broken on one platform vs another I would not parse that as one platform is more developer friendly vs another.
Its been sometime since I tried to hack anything on android (i briefly tinkered with it around version 1.6) but here is an example of some cross device breakage that I ran into -
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1480 http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1480 .
- ergo98 16y agoThat is the poster child of different behaviors -- bring up Android fragmentation, and it's invariably what gets brought up. Sure, it's a problem. It should behave consistently. It's one very, very, very small element of the platform.
- dman 16y agoHaving intents without having a mechanism to specify an interface for applications that handle intents is the part that seems broken to me. As I said I have not been following android so I do not know if this has subsequently been addressed.