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Agreed. We don't consider Android and iOS programmers interchangable (except in so far as we consider all programmers at JTV to largely be generalists who can w
by justin 16y ago
Agreed. We don't consider Android and iOS programmers interchangable (except in so far as we consider all programmers at JTV to largely be generalists who can work on whatever they put their minds to). Android and iPhone are different platforms with their own gotchas that just happen to share some form factors and styles of interface elements. When we do product design we design for each separately.
- jp 16y agoWebOS/Bada/Android(Linux), WindowsPhone(CE) and iOS(Mach) are all very different. Each platform uses its own string class, threading logic and UI layer. The lack of standardization is almost bizarre when you factor in HTML5. This results in lots of developers sitting on the fence. Five platforms, five compilers, five api´s... yet everything runs on 32bit ARM, uses ANSI/ISO C-like syntax and reads UTF8 over HTTP. I tried writing something that was multiplatform with HybridKit and it was almost impossible. Even stupid code generation might be too much. So solid design and custom code seems like a safe bet.
- zmmmmm 16y ago> The lack of standardization is almost bizarre when you factor in HTML5 I have a feeling we'll one day look a back on this period as a time of mass insanity when just as we nearly attained the dream of a cross platform stack that could run and work well anywhere we all enthusiastically threw it away and enslaved ourselves to the horror of splintered, incompatible technologies.
- mnutt 16y agoPart of it might be explained with the fact that in a small shop the mobile dev also happens to be the one doing the mobile UX, and there are at least some mobile UX skills that are relevant across platforms.