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Is there an alternative that offers longer? Apple do seem to be shortening a bit, but as an app developer, we generally support iOS 2 versions behind unless th
by secretsatan 3y ago
Is there an alternative that offers longer?
Apple do seem to be shortening a bit, but as an app developer, we generally support iOS 2 versions behind unless there’s a particularly good feature we want to add to our workflow.
I don’t see much of interest to us in 17, I’m surprised there weren’t any major updates to arkit considering the announcement of Vision Pro
- manmal 3y agoSamsung is ca on par or slightly worse (depends what year you are looking at), but it’s hard to compare because Android updates are more fine grained and can partially be done without releasing the whole OS. With Samsung you at least know how many releases you‘ll get and how many years of security updates a phone is good for. And afterwards you might be able to put Ubuntu or Lineage on it. I think, as a dev, it’s reasonable to only target the last 2 versions on iOS, but this is owed to bespoke Apple‘s behavior regarding new APIs. Android devs usually need to support twice as much or more major versions, but it’s way less painful for them because the Support Library (now Jetpack) allows them to use a big part of the latest stuff. For example, you can use Jetpack Compose (SwiftUI pendant) with min API level 21 which was released 9 years ago. If you have a phone from 2012 that happened to get an Android 5 update, you can run modern declarative UI on that. The first iPhone that can run SwiftUI is the 6s, released in 2015.
- simonh 3y agoI had a look at a bunch of the big Samsung releases from 2019 and 2020. Some got updates 2 or 3 years later, and a few got no updates at all. Jetpack is cool, but the reason it exists is because the Android OS update picture is appalling. Anyway it doesn’t really address security updates.