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How about "minor" developers? By that, I mean people who would make an app as a hobby in their spare time. How easy is it for them?
by Zev 16y ago
How about "minor" developers? By that, I mean people who would make an app as a hobby in their spare time. How easy is it for them?
- jeanvaljean 16y agoExtremely easy. You can quite literally start from not knowing anything about Android development and, in an evening, have a simple app up in the Marketplace. ...and before anyone responds with "well, that's just going to lead to a bunch of bad apps in the store," I ask you to count the number of fart apps in Apple's App Store. Though I'm sure they're all quality fart apps...
- Zev 16y ago...and before anyone responds with "well, that's just going to lead to a bunch of bad apps in the store," I ask you to count the number of fart apps in Apple's App Store. Though I'm sure they're all quality fart apps... I typed "fart" into iTunes and hit search. 180 results per page and it gave me 5 pages of results. Thats 900 apps[1]. But, not all of the apps are fart apps. There's apps like "Vuvuzela Joke" or "Nerdoids"[2] that likely have "fart" as a keyword. So, the number is slightly less than that. And thats with the irritation of codesigning and iTunes connect. I don't want to so much as think about how many fart apps there are available for Android, if its that much easier to get an app into the app store. Although.. it might be a lower number since the (paid) Android app store isn't available in as many countries.. But, you probably didn't expect me to go and count, did you? ;) 1. In the US app store. 2. Picked at random from page 5.
- evilduck 16y agoProbably easier than iOS, which has the prerequisite of running OSX. A "minor" developer without a Mac needs to buy one or build a hackintosh, both are significantly more work than downloading Android's SDK. And more people know Java than Obj-C, so there's that too.