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> This app is incompatible with your HTC Wildfire. Not that I even wanted to use it, but other photo making, photo editing, photo filtering and photo sharing a

• freehunter 15y ago
  Such is the difficulty in targeting a non-standardized system. Developers have a hard time making apps for platforms that vary wildly. It's a lot more cost effective to hit the big, easy targets on Android then focus your effort on iOS. Single-platform, more purchases, and less development work.
  • zalew 15y ago
    Boo hoo, quit dropping those cliches in here. From what I see, Instagram is one of the few for whom it was too hard (can't recall what was the last time an app didn't work for me). "Requires Android: 2.2 and up" so it's either they excluded lower resolutions or it requires too much RAM for my device to handle or sth, neither of which is a system problem as apps of similar and bigger photo functionality work just fine and smooth.
    • freehunter 15y ago
      "Requires Android: 2.2 and up" so it's either they excluded lower resolutions or it requires too much RAM for my device to handle Note that I didn't say developers couldn't handle it, I said it's not always cost efficient to do so. If someone is still on Android <2.2 or if their device doesn't have enough memory, that's an Android issue. Android exclusively is the only platform to have devices with wildly varying system versions, RAM, and resolution. I don't see anything in your post that even begins to make an argument against that. On the other hand, I've seen at least one post of a developer making a high profile exit from the Android community because of the differences. It's not that Android is hard, it's that is harder, and for less return. Most mobile developers can't afford to buy every system to test on, and can't afford lengthy development and support cycles.
      • zalew 15y ago
        I wouldn't mind that a single dev or some indie team starting up can't handle their workload or afford a device to test on. They are funded 7mil so affordability shouldn't be an issue, they just supposedly can't make this app work on lower requirements than their competitors' products and that only was my point. If they don't care, it's their problem and I'd have left after my first post, but pardon me, I'm tired of every comment like that where someone is trying to excuse developers by raising some Android cliches that there are too many phones around. There are apps more powerful than Instagram which work on my entry-level htc, theirs doesn't and it's their fault, not the OS, not the devices'.
    • billjings 15y ago
      Your phone is Android 2.1? Here is where it stands in the world: http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve... Most Android developers starting new projects are not going to make any serious attempt to support your phone because it is out of date, even by the standards of the Android ecosystem.
      • fpgeek 15y ago
        I thought zalew's complaint was that his phone is Android 2.2 (IIRC the Wildfire did get to Froyo), but that still isn't enough for Instagram. Especially when most other apps in Instagram's space don't seem to have a problem.
• falling 15y ago
  Just a hunch: on the iPhone the app applies the filters in realtime while taking the picture. Does it do that on Android too? If yes, the requirement might be on the GPU. Do the other apps on Android do it?
  • zalew 15y ago
    Yeah, I've had some app that did it.