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What makes iOS elegant over Android in your opinion ? You seem to state it as a fact but I believe it is your opinion .

by copp 6y ago

pjmlp 6y ago
Not the OP, but I also share the same opinion. - OS Frameworks are not designed for the next year's IO, rebooting last years best practices, rather have long term roadmaps. - The build system has stayed mostly the same, instead of having had multiple reboots - C and C++ are integrated with the rest of tooling instead of feeling like an burden that has to be supported to keep game devs happy - Everything that matters on iOS development is available in XCode, instead of being a mix of Studio templates, stuff dropped in Github that we are supposed to build ourselves and apparently official APIs (e.g. Oboe, Vulkan) - Back to frameworks, while iOS offers high level frameworks for common workflows, Android offers Lego blocks that everyone fits in different ways with lengthy discussions on what is good Android code, MVP and whatever is the fad of the month on /r/androiddev - When Apple does game development sessions, they actually talk about game development tech and do provide related tooling, Google talks about Play Store console and advertising for gamers. Notice that main GDC 2020 theme for the Google talks was to try to show that they are listing and trying to change, pity it came 10 years later. - Most APIs in iOS seem to have had some though placed into them, in Android you have stuff like Animations that have had multiple instantiations, or others that have deprecated stuff even before reaching a proper release. - When Google decided to drop Eclipse they had nothing to offer for NDK devs, almost two years later JetBrains decided to create CLion and then they had a solution. Otherwise most likely there still wouldn't exist an alternative to this day.
- copp 6y ago
  Thanks for your perspective from a game dev. w.r.t developing apps it has been long argued that iOS is better.

What makes iOS elegant over Android in your opinion ? You seem to state it as a fact but I believe it is your opinion .

by copp 6y ago

What makes iOS elegant over Android in your opinion ? You seem to state it as a fact but I believe it is your opinion .

Not the OP, but I also share the same opinion. - OS Frameworks are not designed for the next year's IO, rebooting last years best practices, rather have long term roadmaps. - The build system has stayed mostly the same, instead of having had multiple reboots - C and C++ are integrated with the rest of tooling instead of feeling like an burden that has to be supported to keep game devs happy - Everything that matters on iOS development is available in XCode, instead of being a mix of Studio templates, stuff dropped in Github that we are supposed to build ourselves and apparently official APIs (e.g. Oboe, Vulkan) - Back to frameworks, while iOS offers high level frameworks for common workflows, Android offers Lego blocks that everyone fits in different ways with lengthy discussions on what is good Android code, MVP and whatever is the fad of the month on /r/androiddev - When Apple does game development sessions, they actually talk about game development tech and do provide related tooling, Google talks about Play Store console and advertising for gamers. Notice that main GDC 2020 theme for the Google talks was to try to show that they are listing and trying to change, pity it came 10 years later. - Most APIs in iOS seem to have had some though placed into them, in Android you have stuff like Animations that have had multiple instantiations, or others that have deprecated stuff even before reaching a proper release. - When Google decided to drop Eclipse they had nothing to offer for NDK devs, almost two years later JetBrains decided to create CLion and then they had a solution. Otherwise most likely there still wouldn't exist an alternative to this day.

copp 6y ago
Thanks for your perspective from a game dev. w.r.t developing apps it has been long argued that iOS is better.