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It’s more that buying a high-end Android phone is kind of pointless. As a dev you want to target the largest possible customer base. In practice this means deve
by Aaargh20318 6y ago
It’s more that buying a high-end Android phone is kind of pointless. As a dev you want to target the largest possible customer base. In practice this means developing with a low-end phone and an older OS version in mind. You could have your app adapt to higher-end phones or newer OS versions with things like optional features, but in reality the market share of those devices is too low to be worth the investment.
In the end, users with high-end Android phones will mainly be running apps that are not designed to take full advantage of the capabilities of the device.
- mastazi 6y agoMmmm I’m not sure if that is always the case. Anecdote: I live in Australia (where probably the share of higher end devices is higher than other countries) and I’ve seen a trend where some Android apps that are made for the Australian market, are only available to higher end devices and listed as incompatible with everything else. In some extreme cases, they are also restricted to one single brand i.e. only latest generation, high-end Samsung models would be supported. I haven’t used Android for more than a year so I’m really struggling to remember what apps did that, if I remember I will reply to this comment later.