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No snarky tone here, 2 honest questions: If you don't use an Android device as your primary device, how do you know it well enough to develop for it? How do yo
by hboon 15y ago
No snarky tone here, 2 honest questions:
If you don't use an Android device as your primary device, how do you know it well enough to develop for it? How do you use your own app?
- tensor 15y agoI imagine by using the emulator: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator... On Android you need to deal with a greater variety of screen resolutions and other features. Thus, even if you have a device, testing on it alone is not sufficient.
- radley 15y agoI have a Droid2 (from a conference) and a borrowed Galaxy Tab 10.1. I really want to use my music app, but it's still really new and doesn't yet have autosync to keep my content up to date. Once we get that, who knows?
- bad_user 15y agoPersonally, I use an Android as my primary phone, but I also have an iPhone 3GS for whatever development needs I might have. Even though I like the iPhone and the apps available on iTunes, I think high-end Android phones are just better. For example I made the switch basically because on Android I can block unwanted calls and even make it do various tricks related to that and even if the API itself is not public, there are apps in Android's marketplace that do this (though eventually I ended up cooking up my own app, for fun). To do the same on iPhone, you have to root it and use Cydia. This is one example of freedom the Android gives you that is immediately useful to some end-users that couldn't live without blocking some calls or SMS messages.